In a major breakthrough, the Gurugram police have arrested three accused who had raped and brutally murdered a 10-year-old girl in January. The shocking incident came to light after the minor’s body was found half buried in a water tank in Saraswati Kunj area on January 23. The victim was a resident of Wazirabad village slum area.
The police had arrested one of the accused on Saturday and the rest were nabbed on Monday. The police arrested all the accused from the slum area of Sector-43 with the help of the victim’s neighbours. They recognised the recognised number of the car used in the crime.
All the accused were drug addicts and identified as Jalil Ali (22) of West Bengal, Mukhtar Ahmed (30) and Azad Ahmed (26) of Uttar Pradesh.
“The accused Azad was the kingpin of the gang. On January 15 he told the girl he will give her some money if she accompanied him. The victim knew him so she went with him without any thought.
After this, the trio kidnapped the girl and held her hostage in a Sector-43 slum and raped her for four days.
Fearing of being recognised, they strangled the girl to death and dumped the body in a water tank in the Saraswati Kunj area,” DCP East, Deepak Saharan said.
“Azad and Jalil work as drivers while Mukhtar is a junk dealer. We have seized the Skoda car in which the crime took place. Azad was the driver of the Skoda car and worked for the owner of the vehicle,” he added.
A FIR was lodged against the accused at the Sushant lok police station under various Section of the IPC.
The girl had gone missing on January 16 from a slum near Wazirabad village. Her father had approached the police and lodged a complaint, suspecting that his daughter may have been kidnapped.
A special team was formed to track the girl. later the child’s body was found in a water tank in Saraswati Kunj area.