Fatehpur (UP), Jul 19 (PTI) A seven-year-old child was killed and his face smashed after being allegedly sodomised here, police said on Tuesday.

The matter came to the fore on Tuesday when the body of a child was recovered from a secluded place in a village in Hussainganj area, Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Kumar Singh said.

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He said that the child went missing at about 3 pm on Monday and when he did not return police were intimated via an application.

A search was conducted by the police and villagers during which they saw a hand on the lawn of a secluded house. After digging the area, the child's body was taken out, he said.

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There was no cloth on the body and the face was smashed badly to hide the identity.

The body of the victim was sent for a post-mortem examination.

The police later arrested one Shyamu Pandey (32) of the same village on suspicion.

He also confessed to his crime during interrogation, police added.

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