A four-year-old girl in Haryana’s Faridabad district was raped, brutally stabbed to death, and then stuffed inside a container, allegedly by a man who used to work at her father’s sweet shop.
The incident took place on Thursday in Asaoti village in Faridabad’s Palwal, about 80 kilometres from New Delhi. A medical test has confirmed the child was raped before she was killed.
The accused, 24-year-old Bholu alias Virender, had been working for the victim’s father for the last nine years. On Thursday afternoon, he took the girl who was sitting at the shop to his house and then brutally raped her. He then stabbed her to death and stuffed her body in a drum at his house.
After committing the crime, he came back to the shop. In the evening, when the girl was not found anywhere, he also accompanied her parents for a while in searching for her. A neighbour informed the parents that he had seen Bholu taking the child away.
The villagers reached Bholu’s house where they got into an argument with the accused’s mother, the only person in the house and found the dead body in a drum.
“When we started to look for her, he too participated along with us and kept fooling us. When we went to his house, his mother didn’t tell us anything. She was not even willing to open the door and turned off the lights where the drum was kept,” the girl’s father said.
“We want him to be hanged to death. He was so brutal to my daughter. We want justice.
Justice because we lost our daughter but nobody else should lose their child,” said her mother.
“The accused has been arrested under sections of IPC (Indian Penal Code) and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) and sent for three days of custody. We are investigating all CCTV footage, blood stains and eyewitness statements,” said Devender Singh, a police officer.
