In an awful incident, an eight-year-old school girl of Salia Sahi in the city was raped and then brutally murdered by a youth from the same locality. The body of the victim was sent for post-mortem, said police.
The accused was identified as Kiran Kumar Sahu (19) of the same slum. According to reports, the mother of the victim had sent the girl for a work.
On the way to the destination, the accused forcefully took her away and raped her at a lonely place at Sriram Nagar. Fearing any danger from the girl’s side, the accused killed her by strangulating her, said the sources. The body of the victim was recovered from a bush near loyola School at Sriram Nagar under Nayapalli police station.
“We arrested the culprit from the slum who raped and then killed the minor girl. The actual reason of the rape and murder will come out after investigation is over,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh.