8-yr-old girl raped and murdered in Palghar; son of ex-sarpanch held
Palghar (PTI): An eight-year-old girl, who had gone to a friend's birthday party, was murdered after allegedly being raped by a man in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Wednesday.
The police have arrested a 21-year-old son of a former sarpanch (village head) in this connection, an official said.
The victim, resident of a village in Mokhada taluka, went to the birthday party of her friend in the village on Sunday but did not return home.
Her family members then carried out a search for her.
The victim's body was found near a graveyard in the village late Sunday night. The police sent the bodyfor postmortem and initiated a probe into the girl's death, Mokhada police station's assistant inspector Premnath Dhole said.
A police probe team worked on various leads, including technical and intelligence inputs, and arrested the man on Tuesday, he said.
The man allegedly stalked the girl on Sunday and then raped and murdered her at night, he said.
The mother of the accused was earlier a local councillor, as per the police.
The accused has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103(1) (murder), 65 (2) (rape of a female under 12 years of age) and 66 (punishment for causing death or resulting in a persistent vegetative state of the victim) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Dhole said.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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