An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered after a man known to her family lured her out of her house on the pretext of treating her to golgappas in Bulandshahr district on Friday, police said.
When she failed to return home, her family members began searching for her and informed the police. It bore injury marks on the head. The accused, Ravi Kashyap, was employed at the same factory as the girl’s father. Both families lived in rented accommodation in the same building. Police are questioning his wife in connection with the incident and conducting raids at suspected locations to arrest him. Police teams have been deployed to trace the accused, while further investigation is underway to establish the sequence of events.
Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Abhishek Pratap Ajay said a case under sections 103(1) (murder) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) had been registered at Sikandrabad police station on the basis of a complaint. The incident took place within the jurisdiction of the Industrial area police station, around 30 km from the district headquarters.
The accused is a native of Tariyan village under Chhibramau police station in Kannauj district, according to ASP Abhishek Pratap Ajay. The child went missing on Friday afternoon. Police launched an immediate search operation after receiving information about her disappearance, and her body was recovered around 2am on Saturday, police said.
