A man was beaten to death at his residence for raping his 8-year-old neighbour in Chaman Vihar locality under Tronika City police station of Ghaziabad district late on Friday. The deceased, identified as Jitendra, had taken the girl to a religious function in the locality, from where he took her to his house and raped her, police said.
The girl somehow managed to reach her home and narrated the tale of horror to her mother. Following which the girl’s parents, along with locals, stormed the accused rapist’s house.
They dragged Jitendra out of his house and beat him black and blue. Later they handed him over to police, which took him to hospital where he was declared brought dead. “On the complaint of the rape accused’s family, a case of lynching has been registered,” said Ghaziabad SSP Vaibhav Krishna.