34-yr-old man raped, killed 3-yr-old in Nuh, joined search party to look for her

The Nuh police said the suspect took the girl to a secluded place in the jungles on a hill near the village where he raped and murdered her

Published on: Dec 2, 2024, 15:57:34 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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GURUGRAM: A 34-year-old man in Nuh district allegedly kidnapped a three-and-a-half-year-old girl playing outside her house on Saturday evening, raped the girl and killed her when she kept on screaming in pain and later joined a search party led by her parents to look the girl.

Inspector Chand said four teams were formed to arrest the accused. He was finally nabbed on Sunday evening near Marora village along the Delhi-Mumbai expressway. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The man was later arrested about 6-7km from the spot while trying to flee.

Inspector Subhash Chand, station house officer of Pingwan police station, said the girl was kidnapped at about 6pm on Saturday when she was playing right outside her house in the village.

When the girl did not return, her parents who work as daily wage labourers and other neighbours launched a search for her. Among those who volunteered was a 34-year-old villager who was arrested for the horrific crime on Sunday.

The girl’s blood-soaked body was found around 11pm.

Inspector Chand said four teams were formed to arrest the accused. He was finally nabbed on Sunday evening near Marora village along the Delhi-Mumbai expressway. “We are questioning him,” Chand said.

“The suspect had taken place her to a secluded place in the jungles on a hill near the village where he raped and murdered her. When the girl had started screaming, he had strangled her to death while continuing to rape her,” he said.

Police said the suspect would be produced on Monday before a court in Nuh to seek his police remand to establish the chain of events leading to the crime and the suspect’s efforts to escape.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More