INDORE: Sexual assaults with minors continually reported from across the nation, in a most recent case a four-month-old baby was raped and murdered in the famous Rajwada area of Indore in the wee hours of Thursday. The infant’s body was recovered in the basement area of the  Shiv Vilas Palace where blood smears on the stairs witnessing a terror incident.

Policemen were hard-bitten and nearly moved to tears as they carried out groundwork examination of the despoiled body and carried it away in a little bundle. A suspect, who is a member of the family, is under arrest.

The autopsy report confirmed the savage sexual assault, and noted that the infant died due to head injuries.  Following reports SI Trolik Singh Varkade of Sarafa police station has been suspended for negligence of his duty.

“The SI failed to inform seniors of the heinous crime in his area,” said DIG Harinarayanachari Mishra as quoted by TOI. The baby’s father sells balloons at Rajwada and lives nearby. Like the Kathua survivour’s family, this baby’s parents are also nomadic.

The baby was sleeping with her family on a porch outside Rajwada, when she was kidnapped. Suspect took the girl during the round of policemen.

CCTV footage shows a man reaching in a cycle, holding the girl and moving towards to a commercial complex which built on a portion of Shiv Vilas Palace around 4.45am. He is seen returning to the spot alone as TOI reported.

Initially, police detained an acquaintance of the family but cleared him. The arrested suspect is a relative. Police have seized his bloodstained clothes and the cycle. “Policemen were in the area when the incident took place. But the four-month-old girl was sleeping with other men and women and the perpetrator was one of them. The policemen didn’t know that he was not a family member and had ill intentions,” the DIG said.

The infant’s mother told police that she had woken up around 3am and checked her children. Everyone was safe, she said. They realized she was missing when they woke up around 5.30am.