In a heart-wrenching incident, an eight-year-old girl child was thrown into a dry well after being allegedly raped and strangled to death by unidentified men in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan, police said on Monday. Her body was recovered on Saturday night, the station house officer of Choti Sadri police station Ravindra Pratap Singh said.
It is reported that the accused abducted the minor from her house on Friday night while she was sleeping with her mother. She was allegedly raped and strangled to death, the station house officer said. They later threw the girl's body into a dry well, which is 300 meters away from her home, he added. Singh said a probe into the matter is underway and nearly half a dozen people have been rounded up for interrogation.
Minor girl abducted, raped Kanpur: In another incident 14-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped for more than two days by four people in Chakeri town Kanpur, police said on Monday. The matter came to light on Sunday evening when the minor managed to escape from the clutches of the accused after two days and reached her house in Chakeri, said Supdt of Police (East), Raj Kumar Agarwal.
The girl informed her parents that four people had raped her for two days at different places, the SP added. Police have lodged an FIR under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
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