Bhopal

No clue yet to Bhopal sexual assault case

Staff Reporter

The police headquarters, taking over the case related to a three-year-old girl's sexual assault, has handed over it to the Additional DG (Crime Against Women) on Thursday. Addl DG Aruna Mohan Rao convened a meeting of all the senior officials of the district at the police control room on Thursday.

Investigation in speedy manner should be conducted to establish the identity of the accused, said Addl DG Rao during a meeting to review the investigation in the sexual assault case, on Thursday.

The senior police officials present at the meeting were instructed to investigate the case with seriousness and should take every information as most important which could help in establishing the identity of the accused and leading to the arrest.

She asked the officials to immediately prepare a case under the Madhya Pradesh Apradh Pratikar Yojana-2015.

At the meeting instructions to investigate the case with the help of forensic and physical evidence collected should be done. Meanwhile, police officials involved in the investigation said that teams have been formed and search has been intensified.

Addl SP Zone I Rajesh Chandel said that teams have been formed by the GRP and district police which are working continuously to establish the identity of the accused. At the moment nothing concrete has been found which could help in establishing the identity of the accused.

GRP police station in charge Hemant Shrivastava said that around 25 suspects have been rounded up and the investigation is in full swing. The place where the victim went missing was not covered by CCTV cameras recording range and other nearby installed cameras have been searched and the investigation is on, he added.

Notably, the three-year-old girl was found injured at Pul Patra area on Wednesday morning who was sexually assaulted and dumped to die but she was rescued and later the matter surfaced.