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.
