INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
FARIDABAD: A labourer has been arrested for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl and murdering her after she tried to raise the
alarm.Jitender (47) is from Agra and worked as a labourer with a private company
He was living alone in a rented house, police said.The girl's family, which lived in the same locality, said she had gone missing around 4pm
on Tuesday."After they couldn't find her anywhere, her father approached the police around 10pm
A police team reached the area and thoroughly searched neighbouring homes
They discovered the child's body in the accused's bathroom, stuffed inside a bag," police spokesperson Sube Singh said.The child's body was
sent to BK Hospital for an autopsy and forensics reports have revealed that she had been killed by slitting her throat with a sharp knife
The autopsy also revealed that she had been sexually assaulted."The accused was absconding
Police were able to trace him to Press Colony in Mujesar
When a police team went there to arrest him that same night, he attempted to flee
While trying to escape, Jitender slipped from the roof of a building and fell
He suffered minor injuries," Singh added.Jitender was then admitted to the BK Hospital for treatment, following which he was arrested by the
police.An investigation revealed that Jitender took the child to his room with the intention of raping her
As she cried out in distress while he was sexually assaulting her, he slit her throat with a knife in a bid to silence her, cops said.A case
was registered against Jitender under IPC section 302 (murder) and Pocso Act at the Sector 58 police station.(The victim's identity has not
been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
