In a sensational incident, a minor girl was raped and later done to death to conceal the crime in Shrawasti. After registering a case, the police claimed to have arrested him on Tuesday afternoon.
As per reports, an 11-year-old girl from Sirsiya locality of Shrawasti went to mow grass for cattle on Monday evening. When she did not return home till late in the evening, her parents searched for her and later complained to the police. On their part, the cops refused to register a case and directed them to search the victim on their own.
On Tuesday morning, the situation took an ugly turn when locals spotted the victim’s body lying on the fringes of the village and informed the parents who subsequently identified the body as that of their missing child.
Circumstantial evidences suggested that she had been raped and later murdered by the accused. It was then the police woke up from its inertia and started probing. A local informed that the girl was seen with Patarku (30) of the same locality late on Monday evening. The cops later raided his house and arrested Patarku on Tuesday afternoon. On being grilled, he confessed his role in the crime.
Meanwhile two sensational incidents rocked Unnao when a teenager killed his uncle and cousin over a property before endinghis life while in another incident, a woman and her daughter were found hanging from a tree.
In the first incident, a 17-year-old boy shot his uncle Ramesh Singh (68) and cousin Praveen alias Rinku (28) before ending his life over a property dispute at Fatehpur Chaurasi. The locals nabbed the accused and finding himself trapped, the boy shot himself and ended his life. The bodies were sent for autopsy and investigations are on.
In Badaura village, the body of Rajani Gupta (25) was found hanging from a tree while her two-year-old daugther’s body was found nearby on Tuesday morning. Rajni’s kin alleged that she was killed by her in-laws for dowry and was later hanged to make it up as suicide. The bodies were sent for autopsy and a case was registered.