Tamil Nadu: Worker from Bihar held for 'sexual assault, murder' of infant

Coimbatore: A 22-year-old migrant worker from Bihar was on Friday arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering an eight-month-old girl in a Tamil Nadu village, police said.

The infant was found dead with bleeding injuries on Thursday evening at Kondekoundanpalayam village, where about 25 families from Bihar stay and work in private textile and coir units.

Police took the accused, identified as Sanjith, into custody on Friday morning while he was waiting for a bus to go to the railway station. He confessed to the crime during interrogation, police said.

Sanjith told the interrogators that he attempted to sexually assault the infant who was lying alone, but when she started crying, he banged her head on the floor that resulted in her death, police said.