A 14-year-old boy staying in an orphanage in Mandhare Vasti village helped the police nab a 20-year-old suspect in a rape and murder case.
It was on basis of the standard IX student‘s description of the culprit that the police sketched his poster and displayed it throughout the village. He had seen the 11-year-old victim with the rapist and thus had informed the police.
The Yavat police have identified the youth as Nitin Narayan Kadam (20) who was arrested on Sunday. The body of the victim was recovered from the sugarcane farm at Moje Kutbab taluka in Daund on Thursday.
Kadam was produced before special judge in Baramati and was remanded in police custody till September 2.
Ravindrasinh Pardeshi, additional superintendent of police, said, “The boy was heading to school with his friend when he saw the victim with Kadam. He helped us with the culprit’s description and we displayed it in the nearby 10 villages. On Sunday afternoon, we came to know that in Nathachi village, the poster of Kadam was torn. On this tip off, we went to the village and with the help of the villagers arrested him.”
The incident
Manojkumar Lohiya, superintendent of Pune rural police, said, “The victim was a standard V student and her father is a milkman. On Thursday, she was returning home from school. Kadam, who works on daily wages, had come to the victim’s village. He called her and escorted her to a nearby farm and raped her. When the victim said that she will tell her parents about the incident, he strangulated her with the help of her school tie. Later, the victim’s parent approached us.”
Assistant police inspector Shashikant Chavan of Yavat police station, said, “Kadam stays with his mother and elder brother. He is an alcoholic and we have recovered the clothes he had worn during the offence.”
Culprit’s house set ablaze
Soon after the news of Kadam’s arrest in brutal rape and murder case spread, agitated villagers set his house on fire.
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