A shocking crime from Uttarakhand has come to the fore amid the ongoing nationwide protests over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College hospital. In Rudrapur of Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district, a nurse was allegedly raped and murdered by a migrant labourer. The crime took place on July 30 and the police finally cracked the case by pursuing the mobile phone that was stolen from the victim.
The woman, 33, was a nurse at a private hospital in Nainital. The mother of an 11-year-old girl, they were living in in Udham Singh Nagar's Bilaspur Colony. The police started the probe as a man-missing complaint when the sibling of the victim filed a complaint on July 31 claiming that her sister never came home on July 30, Tuesday.
The cops couldn't make any breakthrough until her body was found in an empty plot in Uttar Pradesh’s Dibdiba over a week later, reports said. The autopsy report confirmed that she was sexually assaulted before being murdered.
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The investigation team then tried tracking the victim's mobile phone. As expected, it was stolen from her after the murder by the accused -- Dharmendra of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly. The cops picked him up from Rajasthan’s Jodhpur, TV 18 said in a report.
According to the police, Dharmendra confessed to having committed the crime during interrogation. He followed and attacked the nurse on the way inside the Basundhara Apartment at Kashipur Road in Udham Singh Nagar. He wanted to rob the woman of her valuables and dragged her to the isolated plot when he raped and strangled her to death, the TV18 report added. He fled Uttarakhand with her jewellery, mobile phone and cash inside her purse, the police said.
