Abducted 3-year-old girl ‘raped, strangulated’

A three-year-old girl child, who was allegedly abducted from outside her house in Colony Number Four on Friday night, was found murdered in the forest area near the colony early on Saturday.

The victim, whose body was found naked and had several injury marks on it, is suspected to have been raped and then strangulated to death, before being dumped in the bushes near a nullah. The police are suspecting it to be the handiwork of a person known to the victim.

According to her family, the victim was playing outside her house along with other children from the locality at around 9 pm when she went missing.

“There was a power cut in the colony, and she went outside to play while her mother was cooking food. However, she never returned and we started looking for her after some time. My sister-in-law had seen a man take her away on his shoulders but had thought that he was a relative, as my daughter did not talk to strangers,” said her father, who works at the nearby Elante Mall and stays with his wife, two other daughters and relatives. Colony residents searched for the girl for about an hour before calling the police. Police teams arrived and started conducting a door-to-door search operation, and also searched the forest area along with the locals. However, after failing to locate her, the police personnel went away at 3 am.

“Residents kept looking for the girl and around 6.30 am, we saw something lying in the bushes alongside the nullah in the forest. On closer inspection, we realised with horror that the girl was lying face-down towards the nullah. The body had strangulation marks, and several injury marks on her limbs,” said Raghunath Yadav, the girl’s uncle.

Source:: Indian Express