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Time of India
21 hours ago
- Time of India
Youth accused of assault, murder bid on minor held
Kanpur: The police arrested the accused of sexual assault and attempt to murder on a five-year-old girl, during an encounter on Wednesday night. The accused was hiding in a forest cover along the Ramsari-sugar Mill road. Seeing the police vehicle, he fired at the vehicle, prompting retaliatory firing. He sustained a bullet injury in his leg and was caught. He was sent for medical treatment. On Tuesday evening, a five-year-old girl, whose father is a private worker, was discovered in a severely injured state in a village under the limits of Ghatampur police station. The victim's mother identified 28-year-old neighbour as the perpetrator who assaulted her daughter and attempted to murder her by gagging her mouth with leaves and striking her head with a brick. The accused had lured the girl behind a shrine to assault her. Initially denying any knowledge of the girl's whereabouts during the family's search, the accused later emerged carrying the injured child. She was first taken to a Community Health Center before being transferred to Kanpur. The accused accompanied the victim to the hospital, where the girl's father confronted him and struck him, after which he escaped. The child was thereafter transported to a govt hospital through a Green Corridor. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South, Deependra Nath Chaudhary, along with his subordinates and forensic team, examined the crime scene on the same night. The authorities registered a case against the accused under relevant sections for rape, attempted murder of a minor, and Pocso Act violations. The DCP indicated that locating the suspect was challenging as his mobile phone was switched off. Following intelligence received on Wednesday night about his presence in Ramsari forest near the Sugar Mill road, police confronted the suspect, resulting in an exchange of firing. The accused was injured in encounter and as arrested. The police also recovered a country-made firearm and ammunition from his possession. The child, regained consciousness on Wednesday at the govt hospital, however, she remains unable to communicate. Dr Shailendra, heading paediatrics, confirmed the child's head trauma but noted improvement, with oxygen support no longer required. Principal, Medical College, Dr Sanjay Kala confirmed ongoing monitoring by multiple specialists. "The child will take ten days to recover. There are deep wounds on the head, with approximately 40 stitches, and the bones are fractured in four places, "said Dr Kala. DCP South Deependra Nath Chaudhary confirmed the suspect's arrest after the encounter. The child, though conscious, remains unable to speak. "Investigations are continuing," the DCP added. CCTV footage from Ghatampur CHC captured the suspect arriving with the child, rushing her to emergency, and the subsequent confrontation with her father. Kanpur: The police arrested the accused of sexual assault and attempt to murder on a five-year-old girl, during an encounter on Wednesday night. The accused was hiding in a forest cover along the Ramsari-sugar Mill road. Seeing the police vehicle, he fired at the vehicle, prompting retaliatory firing. He sustained a bullet injury in his leg and was caught. He was sent for medical treatment. On Tuesday evening, a five-year-old girl, whose father is a private worker, was discovered in a severely injured state in a village under the limits of Ghatampur police station. The victim's mother identified 28-year-old neighbour as the perpetrator who assaulted her daughter and attempted to murder her by gagging her mouth with leaves and striking her head with a brick. The accused had lured the girl behind a shrine to assault her. Initially denying any knowledge of the girl's whereabouts during the family's search, the accused later emerged carrying the injured child. She was first taken to a Community Health Center before being transferred to Kanpur. The accused accompanied the victim to the hospital, where the girl's father confronted him and struck him, after which he escaped. The child was thereafter transported to a govt hospital through a Green Corridor. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South, Deependra Nath Chaudhary, along with his subordinates and forensic team, examined the crime scene on the same night. The authorities registered a case against the accused under relevant sections for rape, attempted murder of a minor, and Pocso Act violations. The DCP indicated that locating the suspect was challenging as his mobile phone was switched off. Following intelligence received on Wednesday night about his presence in Ramsari forest near the Sugar Mill road, police confronted the suspect, resulting in an exchange of firing. The accused was injured in encounter and as arrested. The police also recovered a country-made firearm and ammunition from his possession. The child, regained consciousness on Wednesday at the govt hospital, however, she remains unable to communicate. Dr Shailendra, heading paediatrics, confirmed the child's head trauma but noted improvement, with oxygen support no longer required. Principal, Medical College, Dr Sanjay Kala confirmed ongoing monitoring by multiple specialists. "The child will take ten days to recover. There are deep wounds on the head, with approximately 40 stitches, and the bones are fractured in four places, "said Dr Kala. DCP South Deependra Nath Chaudhary confirmed the suspect's arrest after the encounter. The child, though conscious, remains unable to speak. "Investigations are continuing," the DCP added. CCTV footage from Ghatampur CHC captured the suspect arriving with the child, rushing her to emergency, and the subsequent confrontation with her father. 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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Rape accused joined search after crime, took victim to hospital: Police
KANPUR After sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl and attempting to murder her in Kanpur's Ghatampur locality on Tuesday, the accused, a 21-year-old neighbour, allegedly returned home after the gory act, washed his clothes, took a bath, and then joined the victim's family in search of the child who had been missing from home, behaving as if nothing had happened, said police on Wednesday. The minor had gone to a nearby grocery store around 4pm when the accused youth allegedly lured her to a secluded spot on the pretext of offering her a chocolate. 'He outraged her modesty, and when the girl screamed in pain, the assailant allegedly stuffed her mouth with leaves and soil. As she continued to cry and resist, he repeatedly hit her with a brick until she lost consciousness,' said deputy commissioner of police (south) Deependra Nath Chaudhary. An FIR was lodged under relevant sections of the BNS and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. The accused, who resides across a narrow lane from the victim's house in a sparsely populated locality, is said to have used his familiarity with the family to lure the girl away while she was playing outside her home on Tuesday evening. 'When I was asking others about my daughter's whereabouts, he told me that she was lying behind the Syed Baba ki Mazar,' the victim's mother recalled from the Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital, where the girl remains in the intensive care unit. Police said the accused led the family to the child's location near the mazar around 11pm and then rushed her to the hospital on his motorcycle. The CCTV footage shows him transporting the grievously injured child to the local community health centre. According to the police, the accused fled the locality soon after many women identified him as the last person seen with the child. 'My daughter used to call him 'uncle'. He took her with him and then hit her with a brick on the face,' said the distraught father, a local e-rickshaw repairman. 'The manner in which he joined the search made it impossible to suspect him. He acted like one of us,' he added. The area near the mazar, surrounded by dense trees, is largely deserted in the evenings. It was here, the police said, that the accused allegedly struck the child with a brick and attempted to suffocate her by stuffing leaves into her mouth. After committing the crime, he returned to his house, cleaned himself up, and actively joined the search. His familiarity with the family and the neighbourhood allowed him to deflect suspicion, until eyewitnesses placed him with the child just before her disappearance. Police officials said the accused was adopted by a tubewell operator and his wife, and had been a frequent visitor to the victim's house. The DCP confirmed that multiple teams have been deployed to track the accused, who remains at large. 'We are closing in on him. His arrest is imminent,' he said. Kanpur commissioner of police Akhil Kumar visited the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday and remained there until dawn. Given the critical condition of the victim, a green corridor was created to expedite her transfer to the LLR hospital.
