Five months after the kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor, the Meerut police rescued her from the clutches of the kidnapper.
The accused was arrested by the police on Sunday and sent to jail. The victim revealed that the accused also raped her during the confinement.
According to reports, a girl hailing from Sindhwali village under Kankarkhera police station in Meerut district went missing on May 31 this year. The family of the girl accused one Shakib of kidnapping her.
For more than five months, no information came out about the girl and the police took no serious cognisance of the matter.
However, recently during a campaign against love jihad some, Hindu outfit activists staged a protest along with the victim’s family and also exerted pressure on the police to act swiftly and free the kidnapped girl from Shakib’s clutches as the case was between the two communities.
Sources said that the Meerut police subsequently swung into action and also managed to arrest Shakib. The arrest came when Shakib was on his way to Delhi with the kidnapped girl.
The girl was rescued from Shakib’s possession. The police team comprising Inspector Tapeshwar Sagar of Kankarkheda police station and SOG in-charge Varun Sharma claimed that after being grilled in police custody, Shakib confessed of holding the girl hostage in a brick kiln in Baghpat and also that he raped her. According to Kankarkheda police station in-charge, the girl was sent for medical examination.
Meanwhile, a 22-year-old woman was found dead near an ancient bridge over a dry rivulet in Chhapar police station area of Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Monday.
The body of the unidentified woman with boy-cut hair was found at a desolate place near Bawan Darrah bridge on Sunday, police said, adding that nothing was found on the victim’s body to identify her.
The body was sent for post-mortem and efforts were on to identify her, the police said.
In the neighbouring Shamli district, an eight-year-old girl was molested by a 21-year-old youth, who was arrested after the incident was reported to the police.
The incident occurred in Kairana town of the district where accused Momin lured his neighbour’s daughter to his house and molested her.
After the victim’s father reported the matter to the police, a case was registered against Momin under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code for using criminal force to outrage the modesty of the girl child, and he was arrested.
In Sant Kabir Nagar, the police arrested a man, who was out on bail, in connection with the alleged abduction, rape and killing of a seven-year-old girl.
Superintendent of Police Brijesh Singh said the girl had gone missing on November 4 and her body was recovered on Saturday.
The post-mortem report confirmed rape.
The SP said that the accused, who was arrested on Sunday, confessed to his crime.
He told the police that on November 4 when he saw the girl all alone, he abducted her and took her to a jungle where he raped the girl and then killed her.
The accused was recently released from jail on bail in a case of having unnatural sex with a boy.