MP: 7-year-old girl raped and murdered; minor relative detained
Barwani (MP), Jan 28 (PTI) Police on Wednesday detained a 17-year-old relative of a seven-year-old girl in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly raping her and killing her by throwing her into a canal, a police official said.
Superintendent of Police Jagdish Dawar told reporters that the body of the child was recovered from the Indira Sagar Canal on January 26, following information from residents of a village in the Rajpur police station area of the district.
He said the post-mortem report concluded severe injuries to the girl’s private parts and attributed her death to drowning.
Dawar said a 17-year-old boy, a close relative of the girl, has been detained in connection with the rape-murder.
The teenager told the police that he kidnapped the girl from her home on the night of January 25 while her family members were asleep, took her to a nearby canal and raped her, according to the official.
When the girl started screaming during the sexual assault, the minor boy allegedly threw her into the canal, with the intention of killing her. The child drowned in the water body, the official said.
The detained minor will be produced in a juvenile court.
A case has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and an investigation is underway, he added.
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Domestic help held for stealing cash, jewellery from US couple's house in B'luru
Bengaluru (PTI): A 29 year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing cash along gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 1 crore from the house of a US couple here, police said on Wednesday.
He was employed as a domestic worker at their house.
Police managed to nab the accused identified as Chandan Roul, a native of West Bengal, they said. The entire stolen property was also recovered intact, police said.
The matter came to light on January 21 when the residents of the villa at Kodihalli, a husband-wife duo who originally hail from Texas, US and are working in Bengaluru filed a complaint at J B Nagar police station, they added.
According to police, the complainant alleged that when they returned home in the evening after work, they found that the gold and diamond jewellery kept in the locker of the bedroom cupboard had been stolen.
In the complaint, they also expressed suspicion about the domestic help who had been working in their house for the past six months.
"During the probe, our team examined the case from various angles and, within a few hours of the incident, we detained the domestic help near the villa where the complainant resides. During interrogation, the accused confessed to having committed the theft," a senior police officer said.
The accused further stated that he had kept the stolen gold and diamond jewellery at his residence in Sudhamanagar, he said.
Based on the information provided by him, on the same day, the police team seized 176 grams of gold and diamond jewellery and Rs 39,000 in cash from his residence. The total value of the seized property is Rs one crore, he added.
