Victim Girl Murdered Son Of Rapist Father

Aligarh, UP: A 15-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing a five-year-old boy in Khair area of Aligarh. She told police that she killed the boy because his father had raped her two days ago.

The boy, son of a labourer, went missing on Tuesday when he was playing outside his home.

The body was found in a vacant plot near his home on Wednesday morning. It was wrapped in polythene and the strangulation marks were on it,  police said.

The boy’s family accused, the girl committed the murder; claiming she was a drug addict.

Aligarh Additional SP (Rural) Sansar Singh said that at the time of her arrest, the girl told her father that she had been raped by the boy’s father on Monday evening.

According to the police, “She said; she killed the boy because she had been raped by his father. She had not filed any complaint before her arrest.”

The girl was booked for murder, causing disappearance of evidence and under provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Khair police station in-charge Rajvir Singh said the girl’s mother is paralysed and her father, a labourer, is often not in town.

He said the girl told them that the boy’s father raped her near a tube well. A case was lodged against the alleged rapist on Wednesday and the girl’s medical examination was done on Thursday. He said the girl had been sent to a juvenile home in Ghaziabad.