Jind: Suspect accused in minor's gang-rape and murder case found dead in Kurukshetra

The Haryana Police on Wednesday said the body of a 19-year-old youth, who was named in the FIR as the alleged abductor in the savage rape and murder case of a 15-year-old Dalit girl from a village in Kurukshetra district, has been in a canal near Jyotisar. The body was found late yesterday night from the Bhakhra Canal.

Police 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.

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. His body was found yesterday night from a canal near Jyotisar. Though there were no visible injury marks, the postmortem will reveal the exact cause of his death," Kurukshetra SP, Abhishek Garg told PTI over phone.

The Class X 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.
Asked about the allegations levelled by the girl's family that local police did not immediately act upon the complaint lodged with them when the girl had gone missing, the Kurukshetra SP said the SHO concerned had been placed under suspension. The girl was brutally assaulted, her private parts mutilated and some of the vital organs ruptured, police had said earlier.

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The girl, reportedly, was missing since January 9 from Kurukshetra. 

“The body had many injury marks, private parts were mutilated and there were a lot of internal injuries. Signs of sexual assault are visible and looks like 3-4 people were responsible. A hard and blunt thing was inserted into her, signs of drowning also found,” said Dr SK Dattarwal, PGI Rohtak.

“My daughter was kidnapped and raped, culprits should be punished. We want justice for her. If the administration had done its job well, an incident like this would have never happened,” said the victim’s father.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday took suo moto cognisance of the Jind incident.The NCW wrote a letter to Mamta Singh, Inspector General of Police (IPS) Crime against Women Police Headquarters in Panchkula, Haryana over the recent rape incidents.

(With inputs from PTI)