6-year-old raped, strangled to death with her school belt

A six-year-old girl student, who went missing on Saturday in Rajathan’s Tonk district, was found allegedly raped and strangled to death with her own school belt on Sunday, police said.

Her body was recovered from bushes in a remote area near her village Khetadi. Liquor bottles, snacks and bloodstains were also found at the spot, police officials said.

According to police, there was a sports competition at the girl’s school on Saturday and she went missing after it ended.

Her family started searching for her when she did not reach home by 3 p.m. but it was only her blood-stained body that was found near the village this morning.

Protesting the heinous crime, a huge crowd gathered at the spot, as police and forensic teams arrived on being informed about the body’s discovery.

The body of the girl was taken elsewhere for a post-mortem as required facilities were unavailable in the village.

Superintendent of Police Adarsh Sidhu said that prime facie, it is a rape and murder case. “We are investigating the case to trace the accused. We have formed special teams,” he added.

Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday directed officials to ensure that the accused in woman veterinarian’s gang-rape and murder are tried in a fast track court and the culprits get stringent punishment.

In his first reaction since the ghastly crime on the outskirts of Hyderabad on November 27, the Chief Minister expressed his deep anguish.

KCR, as Rao is popularly known, decided to set up a fast track court to deal with the case. He asked the officials concerned to take measures in this regard.

He noted that in the case relating to rape and murder of a minor girl in Warangal, setting up of the fast track court ensured the verdict in 56 days, and in in the young veterinarian’s case too, the verdict should come quickly.

The Chief Minister announced that the government would extend all the necessary help and support to members of the victim’s family.

According to Chief Minister’s Office, he was upset that the perpetrators of such heinous crimes are living amidst us. He termed the incident gruesome and inhuman.

Police on November 29 arrested four truck drivers and cleaners for the gruesome crime, which sent shock waves across the country and evoked huge public outrage.

Protests were held in several parts of the country to demand death penalty to the accused.

The accused trapped the woman by deflating one of the tyres of her scooty when she retured to Tondupally toll gate on Outer Ring Road in Shamshabad around 9 p.m. to pick up her parked vehicle and return home.

According to police, after raping the victim one after the other for nearly an hour, they carried the body in the truck to dump it near Shadnagar town, about 28 km from Shamshabad, and burnt the body.

A magistrate in Shadnagar town on Saturday remanded the accused to judicial custody for 14 days.

They were later shifted to Cherlapally jail in Hyderabad.

Salman Khan has condemned the brutal incident of gang-rape and murder of a young veterinarian on the outskirts of Hyderabad on November 27.

The Bollywood superstar took to social media to vent his anger against the culprits who committed the heinous crime. He addressed them as “the worst kind of ‘shaitans’ disguised in the human form.” Since the last couple of days, hashtags demanding justice for the gang-rape and murder victim have been trending on Twitter.

Using such a hashtag, Salman Khan tweeted, “These are the worst kind of ‘shaitans’ (devils) disguised in the human form! The pain, torture and death of innocent women like Nirbhaya should now get us together and put an end to such ‘shaitans’ who live among us, before any other innocent woman...

“...and their family go through this extreme agony and loss as this has to be stopped. Let betii bachao not be just a campaign. This is the time to let these demons know that we all stand together. May (victim’s name) soul rest in peace.”

Indo-Asian News Service