Saharanpur Rape: 10 year old girl raped & killed in graveyard in UP | Meerut News

MEERUT: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by a 50-year-old man at a graveyard in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The crime happened on Friday evening and the accused, a neighbour, was arrested on Sunday.The girl was playing outside her house on Friday evening when the accused abducted her and committed the crime, said police. Fearing that he would be caught, the accused strangled her and hid the body in the bushes just 200 m away from her house.When the girl went missing, the family searched for her the entire night but she was nowhere to be found. The body was discovered on Saturday morning by a local. Based on the family’s complaint, an FIR under BNS sections 103 (murder), 65(2) (rape), 238 (causing disappearance of evidence), and 5/6 Pocso Act was filed.SP (city) Vyom Bindal told TOI that the accused is unmarried and is an alcoholic. “The girl’s father is a daily wager. The accused was produced in court and sent to jail. Further investigation is on,” said Bindal.

“The post-mortem report revealed that she was sexually assaulted and later throttled to death. There were injury marks and bruises all over her body,” the SP said(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)