Tension prevailed in Shravasti after an 11-year-old girl was abducted from her home, raped and killed by one Sheel Kumar in Gilaula.
The locals were agitated after reports said that Sheel’s actual name was Muzaffar Khan.
An 11-year-old Hindu Brahmin girl living in a small village in Gilaula region of Shravasti was abducted, raped and then murdered. The accused, Sheel Kumar, is known to the family and he was nabbed by the police.
According to reports, the minor girl was allegedly abducted on Saturday and taken to an isolated spot by the accused, where she was raped. After raping the girl, the accused strangled her to death to hide his crime. He then stuffed the dead body into a sack and hid it in a bush close to the bank of a canal in Mirchiha village under Payagpur police station.
When the girl did not return home, her family launched a hunt for her and on failing to trace her out they filed a complaint against Sheel Kumar and his family at the Gilola police station, accusing them of abduction.
The girl’s father said that Sheel Kumar had come to their house around 1:30 pm on Saturday and had taken the girl with him on some pretext.
The police registered a case and arrested the accused from the Buddhist circuit, close to Parevpur. During questioning, the accused confessed to the crime. Based on his statement, police recovered the body of the minor girl on Tuesday.
Reportedly, after the arrest, it was revealed in the police investigation that Sheel Kumar’s actual name is Muzaffar Ali, and he has been living in the village for around 20 years using a Hindu identity. According to the villagers, Ram Pheran married a woman from West Bengal in 2005 after his first wife died. Sheel Kumar was the five-old son of that woman who came to the village along with her.