Delhi: 8-year-old woman strangled to loss of life for resisting rape by neighbourhood ‘brother’
In a surprising incident reported from Delhi’s Vasant Vihar, an 8-year-old woman was strangled to loss of life as she resisted a rape bid on her by a teenage boy residing in her neighbourhood, police stated on Tuesday. The physique of the sufferer was later dumped in military cantonment.
As per the police, the woman’s physique was discovered useless with a noose round her neck in a vacant home in Shankar Vihar Navy Station on Tuesday morning.
The woman, who lived within the military servant quarters, had been lacking from her home since Monday, PTI reported quoting cops.
19-year-old accused arrested
The accused has been recognized as a 19-year-old youth from the identical neighbourhood and was arrested later. The police caught him with the assistance of the CCTV digicam, which was put in on the campus.
His mother and father additionally work as servants at a military officer’s home, the police stated.
“Throughout interrogation, the accused revealed that he lured the sufferer, who used to name him brother, to an remoted home within the locality and tried to power himself on her. When she resisted, he strangled her,” the officer stated.
The accused additionally tried to mislead the police by tying a shawl round her neck and making an attempt to cross it off as a case of suicide.
The officer stated the woman is survived by his mother and father and an elder brother. A neighbour informed PTI that the woman was enjoying outdoors her home when she went lacking round 6 pm Monday.
“Her mother and father knowledgeable the military officers after failing to search out her. The military personnel additionally helped the household find the woman,” he stated.
Round 1 am, her mother and father referred to as the native police. Round 8 am, the physique of the woman was found by the locals and the police, he added.
The members of the family and different residents held a protest on the primary highway close to Shankar Vihar demanding justice for the sufferer and her household.
The sections of homicide and others might be added to the FIR, he stated.
(With PTI inputs)
