Mangaluru: A court here has granted five-day police custody to four accused arrested on the charge of sexually assaulting and murdering an eight-year-old girl in a tile factory in the Mangaluru Rural police station limits on Sunday.

Three of the accused -- Jay Singh, 21, Mukesh Singh, 20, are from Madhya Pradesh, and Manish Tirki, 33, is from Jharkhand. They worked in the same factory.

Muneem Singh, 20, from Madhya Pradesh, worked as a labourer in Puttur taluk. The accused were arrested on Tuesday and produced in court the next day.