Another girl child held captive, raped, killed — this one in Surat
86 Injury Marks On Unidentified Victim’s Body
HimansshuBhatt@timesgroup.com 16.04.2018
Surat: Amid nationwide outrage over the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Surat police told TOI on Sunday that an 11-year-old, whose body was found about 10 days ago, had been raped, tortured and strangled to death. There were at least 86 injury marks on her body.
There were severe injuries to the girl’s private parts caused by a blunt object, according to the autopsy report. It seems she was confined, raped and brutally tortured before being killed, cops said.
Police are yet to make any headway on the girl’s identity or the perpetrators of the ghastly crime.
The girl’s body was found under the bushes near a cricket stadium in Pandesara area of Surat city on April 6 morning.
“We will widen our investigations to trace the perpetrators of the crime,” Surat Police Commissioner Satish Sharma told TOIafter visiting the crime spot along with other officials.
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Police circulate posters to identify Surat girl
“All residential colonies and societies near the crime spot would be checked again to get clues. We will scan CCTV footages of nearby places,” he said.
The details of the case came to light on Sunday, with Sharma holding a press conference. An FIR has been lodged under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 376 (rape) of the IPC and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) against unidentified persons, Sharma said.
Police had printed 1,350 posters of the girl and circulated them on social media and declared a cash reward of ₹20,000 for anyone helping in identifying the girl or giving information about the perpetrators, Sharma added.
A senior officer said the girl could have been raped, tortured and killed elsewhere and then dumped in Surat. He said the Surat police were checking with their counterparts in Odisha and West Bengal.
Ganesh Govekar, a doctor at the City Civil Hospital where the autopsy was conducted, told PTI, “Going by the nature of injuries, they seem to have been caused over a period ranging from one week to a day prior to the recovery of the body, suggesting that the girl might have been held captive, tortured and raped.”
86 Injury Marks On Unidentified Victim’s Body
HimansshuBhatt@timesgroup.com 16.04.2018
Surat: Amid nationwide outrage over the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Surat police told TOI on Sunday that an 11-year-old, whose body was found about 10 days ago, had been raped, tortured and strangled to death. There were at least 86 injury marks on her body.
There were severe injuries to the girl’s private parts caused by a blunt object, according to the autopsy report. It seems she was confined, raped and brutally tortured before being killed, cops said.
Police are yet to make any headway on the girl’s identity or the perpetrators of the ghastly crime.
The girl’s body was found under the bushes near a cricket stadium in Pandesara area of Surat city on April 6 morning.
“We will widen our investigations to trace the perpetrators of the crime,” Surat Police Commissioner Satish Sharma told TOIafter visiting the crime spot along with other officials.
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In a hard-hitting letter to PM Modi, a group of 49 retired civil servants referred to the Kathua and Unnao incidents as post-Independence India’s “darkest hour” and wrote, “...we find the response of our government... inadequate and feeble... we hang our heads in shame.” The signatories, including former senior police officers Meera Borwankar and Julio Ribeiro, also wrote, “In both cases, Prime Minister, it is your party in power. Given your supremacy within the party and the centralised control you and your party president exercise, you more than anyone else have to be held responsible for this terrifying state of affairs...” P 10
Police circulate posters to identify Surat girl
“All residential colonies and societies near the crime spot would be checked again to get clues. We will scan CCTV footages of nearby places,” he said.
The details of the case came to light on Sunday, with Sharma holding a press conference. An FIR has been lodged under sections 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 376 (rape) of the IPC and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) against unidentified persons, Sharma said.
Police had printed 1,350 posters of the girl and circulated them on social media and declared a cash reward of ₹20,000 for anyone helping in identifying the girl or giving information about the perpetrators, Sharma added.
A senior officer said the girl could have been raped, tortured and killed elsewhere and then dumped in Surat. He said the Surat police were checking with their counterparts in Odisha and West Bengal.
Ganesh Govekar, a doctor at the City Civil Hospital where the autopsy was conducted, told PTI, “Going by the nature of injuries, they seem to have been caused over a period ranging from one week to a day prior to the recovery of the body, suggesting that the girl might have been held captive, tortured and raped.”
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