The police have arrested a 19-year-old youth in Bijnor district for allegedly slitting the throat of a five-year-old girl to stop her from crying when he tried to rape her, police said on Monday.
Additional Superintendent of Police Praveen Ranjan Singh said that children flying kites spotted the body of the girl in a dilapidated building and informed the police.
Acting on a tip-off, the police picked up Aman Khan and during interrogation he confessed to his crime, Singh said.
The accused told the police that he knew the family of the girl and used to visit her house. On the day of the incident, Khan took her to the dilapidated building and tried to rape her. As the girl tried to scream, he slit her throat using a knife, the police officer said.
Further investigations are on by the police.
In another incident, a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 18-year-old neighbour at a village in Aligarh on Sunday evening, police said, adding that the accused was arrested late in the night while the girl was admitted to a hospital.
The officer in-charge of the local police station said, “We have arrested the accused. The girl was taken for a medical examination and was admitted to the hospital with injuries.”
According to the police, the minor was alone in her house when the accused went inside, lured her with chocolate and allegedly raped her. The victim cried for help and when her grandmother reached the place, the accused fled, leaving the child bleeding.
Police said the girl's father was admitted to a hospital after he met with an accident. Her mother was at the hospital to look after him and the minor was left in her grandmother's care.
Meanwhile, the deputy chief medical officer of Deoria district and five others have been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a Dalit health worker and hurling casteist abuses at her.
The case was registered on the direction of a court.
They were booked under sections 354 (assault of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the police said.
In her complaint, the woman worker alleged that an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) and her husband misbehaved with her, threatened and hurled casteist abuses at her when she was on duty on May 24 last year. She alleged that later on June 3, the deputy chief medical officer misbehaved with her and tried to outrage her modesty.
The woman health worker claimed that she had complained about the matter to the chief medical officer and other officials, but no action was initiated. She then filed a complaint at Gauribazar police station, but police also did nothing. She then moved the court.
On Saturday, Additional District and Session Judge (Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act) Chhaya Nain directed that a case be registered against the accused persons and the matter be investigated.