Bihar minor killed with scissors for resisting rape; cousin held

A minor girl was stabbed to death on Saturday evening after she resisted rape at Charpokhari block in Bhojpur district, 80 km southwest of Patna

The victim’s cousin, a 22-year old youth, has been detained. Police believe that the cousin, who came to the house in an inebriated condition, tried to force himself on the minor. When she resisted, he reportedly stabbed her around the neck with scissors. The girl, who bled profusely, succumbed to her injuries.

The victim’s elder sister, also a minor, lodged an FIR with the local police on Sunday. Police suspected the reason behind lodging of FIR against ‘unknown’ persons due to family pressure.

The minor, a student of class 4 at a government school, and her sister, 16, used to stay at the house of their uncle, who is a president of the primary agricultural credit society (PACS). The incident took place when the girl was alone in her room on Saturday evening, the police added.

The police have pressed charges against the accused under the state’s stringent prohibition laws, which provides for imprisonment up to 10 years for boozing, possessing or dealing in alcohol. Two youths of Brahmapura village in Muzaffarpur district, 70 kms north of Patna, were arrested late on Saturday in connection with the recent gang rape of a minor girl of New Delhi.

Senior superintendent of police, Muzaffarpur, Vivek Kumar, said the duo was studying in Delhi and preparing for engineering competitive examination. The arrested youths have been identified as Akash Kumar, 19, and Shivam, 18, both from Muzaffarpur.

Akash’s father is a priest and Shivam’s dad a businessman, who deals in wholesale vegetables.

A Delhi Police team assisted the district police in arresting the youths. The two were tracked down and arrested on the basis of their cellphone location, the SSP said.

“We got details of the accused from the three-member Delhi police team. After completing legal formalities, we have handed over the two youths to the Delhi Police team, which will take them to Delhi on transit remand,” the SSP added.

A member of the Delhi Police team said the youths were named accused in an FIR lodged by the victim’s mother at the Shakarpur police station, east Delhi, on May 3.

“The accused were neighbours of the victim and had reportedly called her to their room, where they and one more youth raped her. We got the cellnumbers of the accused from their roommate. On the basis of their mobile location, we followed them to Muzaffarpur and arrested the youths,” he added