The accused who recently joined the rice mill is married and has children but they stay in another state said the DCP.
The child's grieving mother and a relative
A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a labourer at a rice mill in Peddapalli district of Telangana on Friday, 14 June said the police. The accused has been arrested under the POCSO Act.
Ramagundam Police Commissioner M Sreenivasulu said that the accused – Balaram (35), who hails from Madhya Pradesh, was working as a labourer in a rice mill at Sultanabad in Peddapalli district.
Talking about the violent crime, he said, “The accused took the minor girl sleeping with her mother at a camp within the rice mill compound in the wee hours of today. He raped her and when the girl raised an alarm, he throttled her neck and killed.”
The residents of the area who gathered there caught him, he added. After the accused was arrested, a case of rape and murder were registered and the accused was also booked under the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The body of the victim has been sent to a government hospital for postmortem.
Speaking to South First, the Commissioner said, “The incident was reported on Friday morning and we have arrested the accused. He has confessed to the crime. The postmortem of the deceased is under process and it will be handed over in two, three hours.”
“We did not recognise the accused. At night around 10.30pm, when the family woke up and found that the child was not with them, we began the search and saw the man with the girl. The family has another kid, an infant. The temperature was hot so we slept outside the houses. The man should be punished,” said the deceased child’s relative.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has directed the Director General of Police (DGP), Ravi Gupta to issue orders to carry out a full-scale investigation in the minor rape case in Peddapally district. He asked the Police to file a chargesheet and punish the accused quickly.
Speaking about the crime, DCP of Peddaplli told South First, “The child’s parents have also been working in the rice mill for a long time now and the families working in rice mill have been allotted single rooms within its compound. The accused recently joined the rice mill and unknown to the parents of the child. He is married and has children but they stay in another state. There was a power cut due to rains and then the accused abducted the child and committed the crime.”
(Edited by Neena)
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