In a horrific development in Delhi's Narela area, a 10-year-old girl was gang-raped and bludgeoned to death allegedly by two men. The minor victim's head was smashed using stones and bricks by the accused duo, reports claimed.
It was around 12:30 AM on Friday that the Narela Police Station received a call about a child going missing from Sector 6. She had stepped out of her residence around 9:45 PM the previous night and never returned, the family told the cops. After collecting information from the family of the child, the police launched a probe. Later, her lifeless body was retrieved from an isolated plot in the neighborhood, Outer North Deputy Commissioner of Police Ravi Kumar Singh was quoted as saying by Delhi media.
The victim's head was mutilated beyond recognition, but the clothes helped to confirm that it was the same girl who was reported missing from Sector 6.
In the course of interrogation the father of the child told the police that some residents of the area had seen the girl in the company of a man, The New Indian Express said in a report. The man was identified as Rahul, a 20-year-old factory worker. When questioned, Rahul confessed of having sexually assaulted the girl along with another man called Devdutt, 30, the report said. While Rahul, worked at a rubber cylinder tube-making factory, Devdutt was employed in an umbrella-making factory. Both of them reportedly resided in Narela.
The duo were arrested and a case under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 376D (gangrape), and section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has been booked.