UP horror: Teen kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered; accused confess they did it 'for fun'

In a shocking incident, two out of three men arrested for the kidnap, gang-rape and subsequent murder of a minor girl in Meerut have said that they committed the crime ‘for fun’, the Times of India has reported.

As per the report, the arrested accused Zulfikar Abbasi and Dilshad confessed to their crimes after their arrest. They told the police they, along with the third accused Israil, had watched a film and consumed alcohol, following which they decided to ‘kidnap a girl for fun’.

The trio spotted a girl on the highway. They dragged her into the car on NH 91 near the girl’s village, following which they gang-raped and strangled her to death. They then dumped the body near a canal at Greater Noida and fled.

The police has seized the car, as well as other belongings of the accused. Earlier, the family had alleged the girl had been kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered, but the police had first called it a case of elopement.

Statistics show just how much the crime graph has risen in crimes against women. According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Thursday, in all, the national capital witnessed 15,310 crimes against women in 2016, out of which 3,891 were abductions, 2,155 rapes, 4,165 cases of assault and 797 cases of sexual harassment. This also included 162 dowry deaths and 3,879 incidents of cruelty by husband or relatives.

In comparison, the total number of cases of crimes committed against women during 2015 and 2014 were 17,222 and 15,319 respectively.