Mentally ill girl raped, killed by brother, friends in Jaipur

JAIPUR: In a heinous crime, a 10-year-old mentally challenged girl was raped and murdered by her brother and his three friends in Manoharpur police station area on the outskirts of Jaipur. The girl had gone missing on May 17 and her body was found on May 21 following which the four accused were arrested on Saturday.
“On May 18, the girl’s parents registered a complaint that she had gone missing and we started a search. The girl was mentally challenged and could not even speak or do routine tasks on her own,” ACP Sulesh Choudhary, investigating officer of the case, told TOI. The cops registered a case and started investigation. The cope were clueless for three days as no one had seen the girl after she went missing around 4pm on May 17.
“For three days, we kept looking for the girl and hundreds of cops were deployed in the area to find her. The family was also not giving us any straight answers but instead were contradicting themselves. We searched for her in the forest area as well thinking that perhaps the family killed and buried her there,” Shankar Dutt Sharma, SP, Jaipur Rural, said. After three days, the girl’s family came to the cops with the clothes which she had worn at the time she went missing and claimed that they found them in the forest area. “The family themselves brought the clothes and FSL teams were deployed. Finally, we found the child’s body which had been dumped in the forest,” added the SP. Using call records of the likely suspects, cops zeroed in on the four accused including the victim’s brother who confessed to the crime.
“The girl’s brother and his three friends took her to the secluded area probably to kill her but they used the opportunity to rape her. All four accused raped her following which she was strangled to death. The accused even purchased new clothes for the child the day she was kidnapped.”