Uncle rapes, kills 7-year-old in Ratu

Ranchi: A seven-year-old girl was raped and murdered by her uncle in Ranchi district’s Ratu area on Thursday, police said on Friday. The accused, Nisar Ansari, was arrested by police on Thursday.
The child’s parents work at a brick kiln in Bihar’s Gaya and she lived with her grandparents in Ratu. On Thursday around 11am, she visited her uncle’s house with her cousin sister. When she did not return till evening, her grandparents and their neighbours started looking for her. Upon reaching Ansari’s house, the mob asked his daughter about the girl to which she said her father had given her a corn and had asked her to play outside and after returning, she did not see her cousin sister.
The child’s revelation raised suspicion and the mob entered Ansari’s house. Initially he claimed innocence, but later, the villagers saw some blood marks on the floor and stains that looked like they were rubbed in a haste. Charged, Ansari revealed that he first raped the girl and then killed her.
SP (rural) Naushad Alam said, “Before handing over Ansari to us, the villagers thrashed him after he confessed to his crime. Ansari also said that after raping the minor, he killed her by hitting her on the head with the blunt side of an axe.”
“After the murder, Ansari packed the child’s body in a sack and disposed it of at a nearby field. Both the child’s body and the murder weapon (axe) have been found and Ansari has been arrested,” he added. Ansari’s wife is away at her parental house for the last two weeks.
A case has been filed under Sections 302, 201 and 376 A B of IPC and Sections 4 and 6 of the Pocso Act. The incident sparked an outrage and the villagers took to the streets and several, including women, attended the child’s last burial after an autopsy was conducted.