A 24-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping, killing and burying a three-year-old girl in a shallow hole in an empty plot of land near an industrial area in Sector 37 in Gurugram, police said on Friday. The girl’s body was recovered around 2 a.m. on Friday.
Investigators said the suspect, from Bihar’s Supaul district, worked in a manufacturing company. They added that he lived in the building where the girl also lived with her parents, and played with her a lot.
Gurugram Police Public Relations Officer Sandeep Turan said the girl was playing when the accused took her at least four kilometers away between 7pm and 7.15pm on Thursday and raped her. He added: “Then he strangled her, dug a shallow hole, and fled after burying the body.”
Investigators said the girl’s parents filed a missing report around 12:15 a.m. on Friday. They added that surveillance cameras captured the suspect taking the girl. He was arrested and soon confessed to killing the girl after raping her. “The suspect accompanied the police team to the scene and helped them recover the body, after which forensic experts were called in to collect evidence,” Turan said.
The accused has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections, including 103(1) (murder) and Section 6 (aggravated sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act.
