4-yr-old girl gang-raped, abandoned in bushes in Madhya Pradesh

The accused threw the survivor into bushes thinking the girl was dead, but she was found alive in a serious condition on Monday evening

Published on: Nov 1, 2022, 16:25:43 IST

By Shruti Tomar

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A four-year-old girl was abducted, gang-raped and abandoned in a serious condition by two people in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district on Sunday night, said police.

Police arrested a waiter, a resident of Khargone, while another accused is still at large.

The accused threw her into bushes thinking the girl was dead, but she was found alive in a serious condition on Monday evening. Police arrested a waiter Rajkumar Singh, 24, a resident of Khargone while another accused Dileep is still at large.

“The girl had come to her paternal aunt’s home to celebrate Diwali. The aunt lives in a semi-kutcha house in the farm of the village. On Sunday night, she slept with her cousin but found missing on Monday morning,” said Khandwa superintendent of police (SP), Vivek Singh.

The family filed a missing complaint and informed that Rajkumar, who worked as a waiter, also had also been missing since Monday morning. The family informed that Rajkumar had come to the aunt’s home and asked for a cot on Sunday night. He took the cot and slept at least 100 metre away from the house.

“On Monday, when the family members started searching for the girl, they didn’t find Rajkumar as well. Police nabbed him from a neighbouring village and during interrogation, he confessed that he along with his relative Dileep abducted the girl from the house and raped her in intoxicated state. He said they strangulated her to death and threw the body in bushes of the farm, 1.5 km away from the house,” the SP added.

Police team started a search operation and found the girl alive. She was rushed to district hospital from where she was referred to MY Hospital Indore in serious condition.

A first information report (FIR) has been registered under Section 376 (d) (gangrape) and 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act. Police are trying to nab Dileep.

(With inputs from Sunil Kerhalkar from Khandwa)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shruti Tomar
I have spent over a decade chronicling Madhya Pradesh’s political and social landscape, covering politics, investigative journalism, crime, human interest, and government policy, blending sharp insight with ground‑level depth. I have closely tracked three assembly elections, three Lok Sabha elections, leadership transitions in MP while exposing governance lapses, tender irregularities, and flawed policy rollouts. My reports have revealed gaps in the Cheetah project, irregularities in medical education, rigging in recruitment exams, and loopholes in policy implementation. In crime reporting, I have moved beyond FIRs to map systemic patterns — from organised crime networks and gender‑based violence to custodial accountability — balancing urgency with sensitivity. My journalism is defined by a commitment to human interest. I have profiled the marginalised Bancchda community, documented atrocities against tribal groups, and highlighted efforts to preserve their culture through heritage liquor and revival of spiritual practices. I have reported on farmers struggling with failed MSP promises, giving voice to those often reduced to statistics in policy files. Passionate about field reporting, I have reported on rampant sand mining in Chambal and Narmada, pharmaceutical companies supplying medicines under altered names, the dire condition of schools and colleges, the plight of commercial sex workers, and skewed sex ratios in specific districts. Beyond deadlines, and as HT’s state correspondent and assistant editor in Madhya Pradesh, I engage with ministers, farmers, students, and activists, believing the best policy stories begin with a single human voice. A postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication, I also hold a diploma in sports journalism.Read More

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