Several policemen and residents of colony no. IV in Industrial Area Phase I were injured on Saturday during confrontation between local police and colony residents over alleged inaction of police in a case related to murder and rape of a four-year old girl.
Colony residents pelted stones on the policemen and their vehicle, and police threw tear gas and lathicharged the enraged residents. Several policemen, including ASP east Parminder Singh and colony residents were injured. Thereafter police detained some colony residents for creating ruckus at the spot.
The residents were demanding immediate suspension of the local station house officer for his alleged inaction over the abduction of the minor girl, missing since Friday.
In the morning, colony residents found the naked body of the girl with several injury marks on her private parts and neck, which suggested rape before murder. The father of the girl said that his daughter was abducted by someone at around 9 pm. When they approached the local police, they refused to do anything and on Saturday early in the morning, the naked body of his daughter was found in the jungle near the CTU workshop.
Colony residents also found marks on neck of the girl, which suspects’ strangulation before committing rape with her and her private parts also found injured.
“ My daughter could have saved, if police had taken timely action, but they did not do anything”, said the father of the victim.The confrontation between police and colony residents started when local police tried to take the body to the hospital for postmortem.
DIG AS Cheema and acting SSP Manish Choudhary tried to pacify the colony residents, but they didn’t relent. This took an ugly turn when they started pelting stones on the police vehicles, which forced the police to retaliate throw tear gas besides lathi charge.
later on police took the body to the hospital and registered a case of murder under various sections of IPC and started investigation.
The deceased was the youngest girl in her family. Her two elder sisters live in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. The father of the deceased works in the housekeeping department of in Elante Mall.