23-year-old youth arrested for minor’s rape, murder in Rajasthan's Alwar

TNN | Updated: May 2, 2020, 11:51 IST

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ALWAR: Bhiwadi police has arrested a 23-year-old youth for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Neemrana police station area.
The incident took place on April 29. The girl’s father had registered a complaint with the local police station alleging that the accused had abducted his daughter. “After we received the complaint, we started looking for the girl. We also alerted our sources. Her body was found inside a well in a forest. The well was around 200ft deep and we had to use a crane to take the body out,” said an official.
According to officials, the accused had abducted the minor girl. After sexually assaulting her, he killed her. He, then, dumped her body in the well.
“After the alleged abduction, we started interrogating the locals and found that the girl was apparently friends with the accused. We started looking at CCTV footages in nearby areas. We received information from our sources following which we arrested the accused. We will question him further to find the reason behind the brutal murder,” the official said.
A case under IPC Section 302 (murder) as well as under POCSO Act has been registered against the accused.