Close on the heels of rape on a 14-months-old girl by a migrant worker near Himatnagar in North Gujarat, yet another incident of rape and murder of three-years-old girl that too by a migrant created tension in the diamond city Surat.
The incident of rape in Himatnagar resulted into backlash against Hindi-speaking labourers as the accused arrested by the police was hailing from Bihar. Due to continue attacks on migrant workers post the incident, exodus of nearly one lakh workers reported from Gujarat to their respective States. Now police have come into action to prevent similar situation in the South Gujarat’s biggest town as in the fresh incident of crime against a toddler, once again a Bihari migrant identified as an accused.
Sources in the Surat police said that the toddler girl was missing from Sunday evening and her body was found in a gunny bag on the next day. The forensic reports revealed that the girl was not only murdered but also raped. During the investigation, the police found a 22-year-old man as suspect.
According to an official involved in the investigation of the case the accused hailing from Bihar had switched off his phone and probably went to his home-state. Couple of teams of Gujarat police have been sent to Bihar to trace the accused. The family of the victim has migrated from neighbouring Maharashtra to Surat.
Surat police commissioner Satish Sharma said that police were trying to nab the suspect and sections including rape, murder, atrocity and POCSO would be put against him. Sharma has also appealed the people to remain calm and not to harm innocent migrants. According to him as part of precautionary measure, extra police personnel have been alerted to prevent any untoward incident.
Meanwhile in an another incident as many as six construction workers and a civil engineer, all hailing from Bihar were allegedly assaulted in Vadodara for wearing Lungi. The incident occurred when they were busy working at a construction site of a school building.