India, May 6 -- The brutal rape and murder of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl in Pune has triggered massive outrage with demands for strictest punishment being made against the accused, a 65-year-old labourer with a criminal history.

As spine-chilling details of the violent assault emerge, the accused, Bhimrao Kamble's family has publicly disowned him. His wife and son have said that he has been living separately since 2015 and that he should be sentenced to death and even his body should not be handed over to the family.

Kamble allegedly raped and murdered the three-and-a-half-year-old girl at Narsapur in Bhor tehsil of Pune district of Maharashtra on May 1. According to the police sources, the postmortem findings indicate that Kamble...