New Delhi: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and murdered by two men in north Delhi's Narela area. The incident happened on February 12. The Delhi Police found the decomposed body of the girl in a gunny bag in the city's Narela area last week.
The body of the girl was found after a shopkeeper called police on noticing a foul smell around his shop. One person has been arrested in connection with the matter, police said.
According to police, the girl had gone missing from her house on February 12. The girl's family filed a missing person's report on February 15 after she could not be found. The police registered a case of kidnapping and started an investigation.
On February 19, the police received a call from a shop owner, named Rahul Rai, who complained that a foul smell was coming from his store. The owner said he had gone to Jhansi and had returned on February 19.
A police team rushed to the spot and found the body of the missing girl under a heap of cow dung bags. Rai told the police that two employees of the shop were missing. The police then raided the houses where they lived, but they were not found. Later, one of them was nabbed by the police from the outskirts of Sannoth on Monday.
DCP (Outer-North) Brijendra Kumar Yadav said they questioned 107 people and formed seven teams, which led to the arrest of the accused.
Explaining the sequence of events, the officer said the accused were drinking when one of them saw the girl outside her house. They lured the girl on the pretext of giving her food and took turns to rape her. During police interrogation, the accused said that the girl had told them that she would tell the incident to her parents. Fearing the disclosure of their identity, they strangled her with her palazzo.
According to police, the girl lived with her labourer father, mother, and brother in a small room in Sannoth village. They had recently shifted there. Both the accused are residents of Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh and are neighbours. They are married and work as labourers.