10-yr-old schoolgirl raped, killed in Prayagraj; one held

PRAYAGRAJ: A ten-year-old schoolgirl was waylaid, raped and then strangulated to death in Shankargarh in trans-Yamuna area here on Saturday, police said.

The body of the girl was found in a drain near the village. After information by some villagers police nabbed the accused who confessed to his crime.

Police said the girl, a resident of Bendo village of Karchhana, lived with her maternal grandfather in Shivrajpur and studied in class 4 at a private school in Shankargarh.

When the girl did not return home on Saturday afternoon, her family searched for her and even went to her school where they were told that she did not attend school on Saturday, police said.

In the evening, villagers spotted the girl’s body lying in a drain. Police reached the scene and questioned the villagers. Some of them informed that a youth of the same village was spotted with the girl in the morning.

SHO, Shankargarh, Bhuvnesh

› He said he took the girl to a deserted place where he raped her before strangulating her to death. The accused then threw the body in the drain

BHUVNESH CHAUBEY, SHO

Chaubey said the youth was rounded up for questioning and he confessed to have abducted the girl while she was on her way to school in the morning.

“He said he took the girl to a deserted place where he raped her before strangulating her to death. The accused then threw the body in the drain,” the SHO added. On the complaint of the girl’s kin, a named FIR has been lodged against the culprit.

Injuries have been found on the girl’s private parts and her body has been sent for autopsy for a detailed report, the SHO added.

The 22-year-old accused was earlier arrested with crude bombs and was out on bail, he said.