The Gujarat government is expected to appoint a special public prosecutor for Surat rape-murder case of a 11-year-old girl, even as the police arrested three accused from Gangapur in Rajasthan.
The accused are likely to be brought to Gujarat on Saturday.
Minister of state for home Pradeepsinh Jadeja said on Friday that among the three arrested included the key accused.
The rape and murder of the young girl in Pandesara, near Surat, the diamond capital of India, had become a challenging task for the police. The body of the victim was found from Pandesara on April 6.
After the postmortem was done, Surat Police Commissioner Satish Sharma had said that the girl was brutally raped and there were 86 injury marks on her body.
The police have registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
In what was an uphill task to track down the accused, the Surat police began probe by by examining the CCTV recordings near the place from where the victim’s body was found. Mobile data and the CCTV footage were within the radius of three-kilometer area from the spot.
The focus was then zeroed in on a black car that was moving suspiciously within the area. Police also found three train tickets from a house in the area.
Jadeja said that they would appoint a special public prosecutor to take up the case in a fast track court.
The identity of the girl is not established yet. However, the police are trying to match the DNA samples of the victim and another woman, who was found dead in a nearby area on April 9. It is believed that the woman could be the young girl’s mother.
The Surat police were helped in the case by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch.
The police also went through the profiles of over 8,000 missing girls from various states of the country.
Jadeja said that more than 400 police personnel were involved in the search operation.
The police are also probing human trafficking angle. Prima facie it is believed that the girl’s mother was working as a construction worker and that the mother-daughter duo could have been brought to Surat by promising a job.
Gujarat’s state commission for women had also swung into action and asked for a report by the Surat police.