NASHIK: Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly raping and murdering a 13-year-old woman in Chopda taluka of Jalgaon district on Saturday night.
He was arrested primarily based on the outline supplied by the deceased woman’s youthful sister, who witnessed the crime. The person had killed the 13-year-old by hitting her on the pinnacle with a stone in a subject.
The arrested man initially hails from Madhya Pradesh however has been staying together with his dad and mom in Chopda. The Chopda metropolis police stated, a few days in the past, the person had come to his sister’s residence, which is near the farm that the woman’s household had taken for tilling.
On Saturday, at 5pm, he was returning to his father or mother’s residence. On the identical time, the sufferer and her youthful sister have been coming back from the sphere. The person noticed the sisters and dragged the older one right into a farm and sexually assaulted her. He then smashed her head with a stone.
The youthful sister, who witnessed the crime, ran to the village and alerted her dad and mom.
Residents of the village instantly rushed to the spot and located the woman severely injured. She was taken to the agricultural hospital in Chopda, the place she was declared introduced lifeless.
Quickly after getting the data, police rushed to the spot and received the outline of the suspect from the sufferer’s sister. Based mostly on her description, the accused man was arrested inside a few hours. He was discovered within the adjoining village.
Inspector Madhukar Salve, of the Chopda metropolis police station, stated, “The sufferer’s sister recognized the accused man. His medical examination has been completed and mandatory samples have been despatched for forensic investigation to Nashik.”
On a grievance lodged by the sufferer’s father, the Chopda metropolis police have registered an FIR for offences punishable beneath sections 65 (punishment for rape in sure circumstances), 66 (punishment for inflicting loss of life or leading to persistent vegetative state of sufferer) and 103(1) (punishment for murder) amongst different sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and different sections of the Safety Of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The accused man was produced earlier than a courtroom on Sunday, which remanded him in police custody until Sept 13.
