Uttar Pradesh: Don’t want to die in encounter, will take my own life instead’, absconding rape accused says in ‘suicide note’

MEERUT: On the trail of a man, who is suspected to have raped and brutalized a six-year-old girl in Hapur a week ago, police on Thursday found his identity card, a set of clothes and a purported suicide note tucked in it saying that the accused "doesn’t want to be killed in an encounter"and was choosing other means to end his life. I know I will be killed in an encounter. And I don’t want to die like that. I will choose my own means to end life. Please don’t harass my children," the suicide note read.
Police, however, were circumspect. They claimed this could be an attempt by the suspect to mislead the investigators.
In a guarded response, a senior police officer said, "Till we trace him or his body or any evidence to corroborate it, we are not going to rely on the suicide note. We are trying to match the handwriting on suicide note with the original."
All the items were found near Mehmoodpur village of UP’s Amroha, where accused Dalpat Singh lived.

Hapur’s additional superintendent of police (ASP) Sarvesh Mishra said, "A trouser, shirt, identity card of the firm in Gajraula where the accused worked and a suicide note have been recovered on the outskirts of Fatehpur village, almost a km away from his Mehmoodpur village.”
The minor girl was abducted on August 6 by a man when she was playing outside her house in Hapur’s Garh area.
She was raped and left to die in a nearby forest, from where a search and rescue team found her almost 12 hours later.
The child is currently admitted in a Meerut hospital and is said to be in a critical condition. There were several injuries on her private parts, leading to excessive blood loss as she lay unattended in the forest region for over 12 hours. Several police teams in Hapur and neighbouring Amroha district have been pressed into service to find the accused, who continues to be at-large despite over a week of massive manhunt.
Police have also announced a cash reward of Rs 50,000 for any information leading to the accused’s arrest. The policemen zeroed in on the main accused with the help of three sketches.
( The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)