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“They are preparing to take the accused back to Surat on transit remand,” he added. They said that Anil was working as a painter on daily wage with the minor’s father.The incident had acted as fuel to the already boiling situation of Gujarat where violence against Hindi speaking migrants workers broke out forcing them to flee on large scale after rape of 14 months old minor at Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha district on September 28.In the Sabarkathana rape case too, prime accused Ravindra Sahu was a native of Bihar and was working there in a factory. PATNA: A team of Gujarat police along with the assistance of their counterparts in Bihar , arrested Anil Yadav (22) from Dhansoi police station area in Buxar district on Friday night for allegedly raping and killing a three-year-old girl in Surat.Police sources said that the minor’s body was recovered from ground floor of residential building at Godadara locality in Surat town on October 15 this month.The minor along with parents, hailing from Maharashtra, lived on the first floor of the building while Anil was living on the ground floor on rent from where the minor’s body was recovered. He was arrested within hours of the incident on the same day.The rape and murder of three-year-old too resulted in massive tension in Surat.Buxar Sadar SDPO Satish Kumar, while talking to TOI over phone on Saturday, said that the team of Surat police had reached Buxar on the very next day of recovery of minor’s body.“The team was stationed at Buxar since then and they were being provided all necessary technical and human assistance for nabbing Anil who is the prime accused in the case,” Kumar said.He said Anil had fled from Surat and returned Buxar after the incident.“He was a native of Idarhi police station area but had taken shelter at someone else’s house under Dhansoi police station area to evade police’s dragnet,” the SDPO said.SDPO Kumar said that the team of Gujarat police had interrogated Anil after arresting and they were not much aware about what he had told police about the entire incident..