A day after a 21-year-old youth was arrested from Gandhinagar for the alleged abduction and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Rajasthan’s Kota, police on Friday booked the minor under POCSO for raping her before killing her. Case registered.
According to police, the girl hailing from Chhattisgarh was a candidate for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) and had enrolled in a coaching center in Kota and lived in a hostel in the city.
A joint team of Gandhinagar Police’s Special Operation Group (SOG) and Kota Police on Thursday arrested an accused from a village in Gandhinagar for the abduction and murder of a teenager.
The accused was brought to Kota on Friday morning, after which he was questioned by the local police officials.
Kota Superintendent of Police Kesar Singh Shekhawat held a press conference on Friday, where he said, “The accused person came in contact with the victim while playing the online video game ‘Freefire’ and the two exchanged numbers while he was in his home in Chhattisgarh. Was at the original place. The victim came to Kota for medical preparation, she stopped talking to the accused and blocked his number. Frustrated by this, the accused visited Kota on June 5 and met the victim. He has also claimed to have raped the victim during the journey.”
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“On the morning of June 6, the accused took the victim to a forest area near Jawahar Sagar Dam and killed her in anger thinking that he would not marry her to anyone else. We have now added rape section against her.”
The official also revealed that the two had left for Jawahar Sagar Dam on June 6 in a hired scooty.
The victim had gone missing on the evening of June 6, after which the hostel owner had lodged a case of kidnapping. FIR At a police station in Kota.
The mutilated body of the girl was found on Wednesday evening in a deserted area of Jawahar Sagar Dam in Borabas forest, about 50 km from Kota city. The postmortem revealed that his throat was slit with a sharp weapon and his face was mutilated with stones.