The accused, a every day wage labourer from Uttar Pradesh, was arrested from Rajasthan on Wednesday.
A nurse was raped and killed whereas she was coming back from a non-public hospital in Uttarakhand to her house close to the Uttar Pradesh border.
She left the hospital on the night of July 30 and was seen taking an e-rickshaw from Indra Chowk in Rudrapur in CCTV footage however didn’t attain her rented lodging on Kashipur Highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Bilaspur the place she stayed together with her 11-year-old daughter.
The subsequent day, her sister filed a lacking criticism. Eight days afterward August 8, the Uttar Pradesh police discovered her physique in an empty plot, almost 1.5 km from her home in Dibdiba village.
The police despatched the physique for autopsy and fashioned a police workforce to seek out the accused. They traced the sufferer’s stolen cell phone which led them to the accused, Dharmendra. The accused, a every day wage labourer from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, was arrested from Rajasthan on Wednesday.
Dharmendra, who was drunk, noticed the sufferer, adopted her and attacked her whereas she was about to enter her house constructing, police stated.
“He dragged her to the close by bushes. Raped and strangled her utilizing her scarf,” stated Manjunath TC, Senior Superintendent of Police, Udham Singh Nagar.
He additionally stole her cellphone and Rs 3,000 from her purse, the police officer added.
This comes amid a nationwide outrage over the rape and homicide of a lady trainee physician throughout her obligation hour in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical School and Hospital. The 31-year-old’s semi-naked physique was discovered within the seminar corridor of the government-run hospital final week.
The brutal incident has reignited requires higher security of docs at their workplaces. Resident docs throughout the nation are protesting, demanding an assurance that the Central Healthcare Safety Act could be handed to curb assaults on medical personnel.
