NEW DELHI: A 14-year-old girl was gang-raped and murdered by two men in Outer-North district’s Narela Industrial Area. One of the accused has been arrested.
The girl went missing from her home on February 12 after which her parents and brother started a search for her. After three days of searching, they lodged a complaint with police. “We conducted a search and later registered a case of kidnapping,” said an officer.
Around 1pm on Saturday, the PCR got a call from Rahul Rai, a shopkeeper from Sannoth village in Narela Industrial Area, stating that he had gone to Jhansi for a few days for some work. When he returned on Saturday and opened his shop, he noticed a foul smell emanating from it. A police team rushed to the spot and found a partially decomposed body of the missing girl under a heap of cow dung cakes kept in gunny bags.
Rai told police that two workers of the shop were missing.
“A raid was conducted in the houses where they lived, but they were not found. Later, one of them was nabbed from the outskirts of Sannoth on Monday,” the officer said.
DCP (Outer-Borth) Brijendra Kumar Yadav said they interrogated 107 people and formed seven teams, which led to the arrest of the accused. Explaining the sequence of events, the officer said the accused were drinking liquor when one of them saw the girl outside her house. They lured the girl on the pretext of giving her food and took turns to sexually assault her.
“The accused said the girl told them that she would inform her parents about what they had done. Fearing the disclosure of their identities, they strangled her with the palazzo she was wearing,” said the officer.
Investigators said the girl lived with her father, a labourer, mother, a housewife, and brother in a small room in Sannoth village. They had shifted there recently.
The parents told police that on the day of the incident, they thought that their daughter was playing outside. When she did not return, they started a search. Both of the accused are natives of Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh and they are neighbours. They are married and work as labourers.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
