Dhumakot police on Monday arrested one Deepak Bisht in connection with the alleged murder of a teenage girl on Sunday. The accused, identified as Deepak, was arrested a police complaint by Mahendra Singh Rawat, father of 13-year-old girl, Ankita, who was hacked to death by a sharp weapon on early Sunday morning. The accused who is the girl’s brother-in-law was arrested under Section 307/ 457/ 506 Indian Penal Code on Monday. He will be produced in the court on Tuesday. A senior police investigating the case said that Kotdwar police had earlier traced the accused and later handed him over to Dhumakot police.
The police swung into action on receipt of the information by the district control room that a girl from Malli Nalai village sustained multiple stab injuries on early Sunday morning. Acting on the information, the police in-charge Dhumakot NK Bachkoti reached the village with police force to find the girl lying unconscious on her blood-splattered bed. It was found she had sustained multiple injuries on her person. The police with the help of villagers rushed the girl to a nearby health centre from where she was referred to a hospital based in Ramnagar.
Police sources said Deepak had married the elder daughter of Mahendra Singh Rawat a few years ago. However, with domestic spats becoming routine, his wife mostly resides to her paternal house. Determined to kill her, Deepak had reached his father-in-law’s house and barged into his wife’s room. However, his wife being away from the village, Deepak mistakenly had attacked her younger sister Ankita repeatedly. As she had screamed others rushed in to find her in a pool of blood. The accused had meanwhile fled.