Jind gang-rape and murder: Accused's family allege torture, physical abuse of minors by Haryana police

The family of the main accused in the Jind gang-rape and murder, who was found dead earlier this week have alleged torture by the police, it has been reported.

According to an Indian Express report, the family has alleged torture and illegal detention. Family members have alleged that the accused’s father, brother and two other relatives were detained by the police last week, and were only allowed to return home on Thursday.

The accused’s father has even alleged that the police tortured his son and nephew who are minors.  

Earlier, Haryana police said that the body of the main accused bore no sign of external or internal injuries.

The body was found on Tuesday night from the Bhakhra Canal at Budehra head near Jyotisar. The post-mortem examination had been conducted by a board of doctors from the Bhagat Phool Singh Medical College in Sonepat.

Kurukshetra Police had earlier said the body of the Class XII student was found in a decomposed condition and was identified by his parents from a tattoo on his arm.

Police had earlier launched a hunt to nab the accused who is alleged to have abducted the girl from Kurukshetra when she went to attend a tuition class.

Both the teenagers went to the same private school in their village in Kurukshetra, police said. The two had gone missing after they left separately for tuition classes last week.

The youth had been named as the alleged abductor in a complaint lodged by the girl's family after the teenager had gone missing last week from her village in Kurukshetra after leaving home to attend a tuition class.

"On the complaint of the girl's parents, we were treating the youth as a suspect for kidnapping," Kurukshetra SP, Abhishek Garg had said yesterday.

The Class X girl student's half-naked body was found on Saturday from near the bank of a canal in a village in Jind district after she had gone missing last Tuesday.

The girl's family had alleged that local police did not immediately act upon the complaint lodged with them when the girl had gone missing.

The girl was brutally assaulted, her private parts mutilated and some of the vital organs ruptured, police had said earlier.

The shocking incident came close on the heels of another incident last month, in which a six-year-old girl was brutally raped and killed in Haryana's Uklana area in Hisar district.

Besides, an 11-year-old girl was also raped and killed in a separate incident in Panipat last week while in two separate cases, two women - 23-year-old and a college student - were pulled into a car and gang-raped in Faridabad and Gurugram respectively.