A three-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Sitapur leading to a fierce demonstration by locals and Sitapur-Delhi highway blockade for several hours on Tuesday.
Senior police officers rushed to the spot and assured the protesters stern action against the accused. It was only after that the blockade was lifted. As per reports, the victim was playing outside her house in Mohali police circle late on Monday evening when she was lured by a youth, identified as Raju, who offered her biscuits.
Raju took the girl to his house where he raped her and later strangled her to death. He later put her body into a sack and covered it with a bucket. The victim’s parents were not at home when the incident took place. When the parents returned and found their daughter missing, they started searching for her. When the victim’s uncle enquired from Raju about the child, he became nervous and rushed into his house. The child’s parents followed him in and found her slippers lying in the courtyard. The police were called and after a search, the body was found in a sack hidden under a bucket. Raju was arrested and booked under relevant sections of IPC and POCSO Act.
Meanwhile, in Mathura, a retired Army personnel was shot dead by his daughter after he opened fire at her brother and mother, injuring them seriously at their home here in Mithauli village on Monday night.
Chetram (45) had an argument with his wife at their home late on Monday night and when his daughter Alka intervened, he shot at his wife and daughter with a pistol. Chetram later tried to shoot his son Adarsh (13) when Alka snatched the pistol from him and shot at him.
A student of Allahabad University, Alka had come home for two days. She was having an affair to which her mother did not object, but her father was against it, which triggered the dispute.
“While Chetram died on the spot, his wife Rajkumari (38) and daughter Alka (19) were battling for their lives at a hospital,” Mathura SSP Shalabh Mathur said.
Alka and Rajkumari are undergoing treatment at a private hospital and Chetram’s body has been sent for autopsy. A case was registered and investigations were on.
Meanwhile, in Lakhimpur Kheri, a man killed his wife and daughter at Barhkherwa hamlet of Phardhan police circle late on Monday night. Saroj Mishra was having an extra-marital affair which often resulted in tiffs with his wife Aarti Mishra (37). Fed up with his husband’s affair, Aarti left for her parent’s house a month back. On Monday morning, she returned with her seven-year-old daughter Purnima.
On his return on Monday night, Aarti again had a tiff with Saroj over the same issue which turned ugly. Saroj whipped out a countrymade pistol and shot his wife and daughter before fleeing the house. The neighbours shifted the injured to a hospital but doctors pronounced them dead upon arrival. A case was registered and efforts were on to nab the assailant.