Dehradun police have claimed to have cracked the case of an eight-year old girl who had been missing since March 16. Police have arrested the accused Dhan Singh, resident of Madrasi Colony, lakkhibagh, Dehradun and native of Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) for having first abducted and later killed her on March 16. After the girl was killed, the accused who happened to be a relative (maternal uncle) of the deceased, is supposed to have dumped the body in the bushes near Railway line in the lakkhibagh area.
Police recovered parts of the body and sandal from under the bushes where the accused is supposed to have thrown the body. Other parts of the body are said to have been eaten by animals. lakkhibagh police post in-charge sub-inspector Anil Chauhan said that in the course of interrogation, the accused admitted his offence and said that he used to gamble in the area and suffered loss, resulting in him getting in debt. The accused had kidnapped the girl with a design to extort money from her parents.
However, things went awry for him as the girl threatened to disclose a relation he had with a woman, a neighbour. He murdered her on the spur of the moment. The accused said the girl had seen him in a compromising position with the woman, a neighbour, a few months back. He had fled with the girl on March 16 evening and reached Railway line near Tyagi Road, lakkhibagh, alluring her with toffee. Refused the promised toffee, when the girl threatened to disclose his relation with the woman he hacked her to death and dumped the body in the bushes near Railway line.
Her head was crushed with stone. The girl’s parents had reported the missing in lakkhibagh police post and police began searching her. A case under sections 364, 302 and 201 of IPC was registered against the accused in Kotwali police station. The accused was sent to Suddhowala jail after being presented in the court, he added.