Rohtak gangrape victim’s brother murdered
CRIME TRAIL 24yearold’s three friends, at whose rented house he was found dead, booked for murder; all accused on the run
ROHTAK: The elder brother of a 20-year-old woman who was brutally gang-raped and murdered in Rohtak in May this year was found dead in his friend’s house in Sikka Colony locality of Sonepat on Wednesday. The police have booked three of his friends Krishna, Leelu and Rohit, all in their twenties, for his murder. The three are staying in the house on rent.
The elder brother of a 20-year-old woman who was brutally gang-raped and murdered in Rohtak in May this year was found dead in his friend’s house in Sikka Colony locality of Sonepat on Wednesday.
The police have booked three of his friends Krishna, Leelu and Rohit, all in their twenties, for his murder. The three are staying in the house on rent. Investigation officer Krishan said they were all addicts and prima facie it appeared that they murdered him in an inebriated condition following some argument. The three are on the run.
The police said the 24-yearold victim was most possibly strangulated to death, though the exact reason behind his death will be ascertained only after post-mortem examination. The victim was unemployed and was also an addict.
He was recently booked for raping a widow of his colony, from whom he also allegedly stole some gold jewellery. He was not arrested in the case as the investigation was going on.
The victim’s family has accused some men of their village who allegedly stole Rs 85,000 from the victim. However, the police said they were yet to find the reason behind the murder.
Sonepat superintendent of police (SP) Ashwin Shenvi said they will form a special team to investigate the murder.
The family, however, has accused the police of not giving them adequate security despite the brutal incident with their daughter. “They killed my daughter and now my son as well. The police did not do anything to save them,” said the victim’s mother.
The family said they had left their residence at Sonepat’s Kalupur village after the murder of their daughter and had shifted to Panipat district.
The police, however, said they were given security. “It would be wrong to say that adequate security was not given. They were living in Panipat, while the victim’s body has been found from his friend’s house in Sonepat,” Shenvi said. He said the deceased was not a witness in the gangrape and murder case of his sister.
The man’s sister was brutally raped and murdered, triggering national outrage over women’s safety in Haryana as the incident was compared with the fatal December 2012 gang-rape of a paramedical student in New Delhi.
Her decomposed and mutilated body was found at a secluded place in the Rohtak industrial area, where dogs were tearing out the flesh, two days after she was abducted from Sonepat.
Police had arrested two men — her suspected jilted lover and his friend — after the family’s complaint. DNA test reports held the duo guilty.
The incident was so gruesome that chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced trial in a fast-track court.
THE THREE ACCUSED ARE ADDICTS; VICTIM WAS MOST POSSIBLY STRANGLED TO DEATH, SAY POLICE