Haryana Shocker: 35-Year-Old Woman Gangraped, Daughter Strangled To Death By Four, Including Minor

The incident, which took place on the night of 21 April, reportedly stemmed from a heated argument between the woman and the accused.

Representational Image | In Jind, Haryana, three men were arrested and a minor was detained for gangraping a 35-year-old woman and strangling her five-year-old daughter.

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Three men have been apprehended, and a minor detained, after they reportedly gangraped a 35-year-old woman and strangled her five-year-old daughter to death, in the Jind district of Haryana.

According to a report by The Print, Jind’s Superintendent of Police Kuldeep Singh said the four accused were arrested on Saturday from near a canal bridge on Ikkas Bypass, based on a tip-off. On Sunday, the three arrested, Hameed Khan (46), Biru (18), and Shiva (19), were presented in the court and were sent for remand for further interrogation.

Police stated that although they have yet to obtain official identity documents to verify the accused’s ages, both Biru and Shiva are confirmed to be over 18 years old.

Meanwhile, the 13-year-old minor involved has been placed in a juvenile correctional facility. All four accused had been on the run since the survivor filed a complaint on 24 April.

The incident, which took place on the night of 21 April, reportedly stemmed from a heated argument between the woman and Khan, according to officers from the Jind City Police Station, where the FIR was lodged. The group of four had allegedly been drinking near the woman’s shanty in Jind’s Tapriwas Colony.

The woman, a ragpicker, whose husband was away that night, got into a confrontation with the group. Police said that after she allegedly used a derogatory term for Khan, he, in a fit of rage, dragged her by the hair to a garbage dump near the railway tracks. Hearing her mother’s screams, the woman’s daughter followed them.

The police added that the child was reportedly trapped by the accused in a blanket. Later, Khan raped the woman, while other were involved in assaulting the daughter. When the child struggled and screamed, Shiva and the other two reportedly pressed her mouth and neck, resulting in her death.

Following the child's death, the accused proceeded to gangrape the mother and left her unconscious at the site before fleeing, the police said.

Arrested Individuals Also Gangraped Woman's Five-Year-Old Daughter

The next day, the locality’s residents found the child’s body lying about 100 metres away from the mother with bloodstains on her mouth and legs and visible injury marks on her neck, police confirmed.

Later, assuming the incident was an accidental death, they buried the child at a burial ground near Bankhandi Mahadev Temple, without reporting to the police. But, when the survivor regained her consciousness after about 48 hours on 23 April, she described the whole incident to the family, and on 24 April, she lodged a complaint at Jind City Police Station.

The police, under SP Singh's oversight, the police, with a duty magistrate present, exhumed the child's body and sent it for a postmortem at BPS Government Medical College for Women, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat. 

The autopsy confirmed that the five-year-old was gangraped before her death, supporting the mother’s statement. The mother’s medical examination also verified she was gangraped.

Post-autopsy, the police included charges under the POCSO Act, along with sections for gangrape and murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The survivour is under medical care and reported to be stable, according to the police.