Delhi Police has arrested a 32-year-old man on Tuesday for allegedly raping and killing a 14-year-old girl in north Delhi's Narela area.
The accused has been identified as Sunil, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district.
According to Brijendra Kumar Yadav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Outer north district, a case of kidnapping had been registered on February 15 after receiving a complaint from the girl's father, a resident of a village in Narela.
On February 19, a man named Rahul Rai, who runs a business of making covers of nail polish bottles in the same village, told the police that after coming back from Jhansi, when he opened his shop, foul smell was coming from inside it. A labourer named Sunil who used to work with him was also missing, Rai told the police.
“The police team searched the shop where the partially decomposed body of the girl was found under a heap of cow dung cakes kept in gunny bags,” said the DCP.
“During investigation, a man named Ram Sacche alias Sachin was arrested from the outskirts of the village on February 20 while trying to escape to Mumbai,” said the DCP.“Interrogation revealed that he along with Sunil consumed alcohol on February 12 at Metro Vihar and planned to call the teenage girl. The accused called the girl, raped her and then strangulated her to death,” said the DCP.
“The police team later received specific inputs that Sunil would come to meet someone and accordingly laid a trap. On Tuesday, after spotting the accused, the police asked him to stop but he kept running. The police asked him to surrender but the accused took out a pistol and fired at the police, the DCP said.
“The police also fired and one bullet hit on his leg, following which he was nabbed. The accused has confessed that he along Sacche had raped and murdered the girl and dumped the body in the shop,” said the DCP.