3 min readNew DelhiJun 26, 2026 03:54 AM IST
First published on: Jun 25, 2026 at 02:52 PM IST
Days after a 10-year-old homeless girl was abducted from South Delhi’s Mehrauli area, raped and killed, police on Thursday said they have recovered the murder weapon. Cab driver Bashu Kumar Singh, accused in the rape-murder case, was arrested on Monday hours after he allegedly committed the crime.
“Police recovered the cotton towel used by him to strangulate the girl and the stone with which he hit her. Both murder weapons were found near a forested area where the incident happened. Strands of hair were also recovered from the cab of the accused,” said a source.
Officers said that during questioning, Singh told police that he waited for 45 minutes for the “right time” to abduct her, another police source said. The incident took place in the early hours of Monday when the girl was sleeping with her parents on a footpath near a Metro Station in South Delhi. During his questioning, police said Singh, 29, revealed the brutality of the crime.
Sources said Singh told investigators that he was heading to Gurgaon after dropping a passenger in South Delhi in the early hours of Monday. Around 3.30 am, he spotted the girl sleeping with her parents near the Metro station. He allegedly considered picking her up immediately but she was right next to her father. Her younger sisters were also sleeping with her parents on the footpath, the accused told police.
So he parked his vehicle and waited for 45 minutes until she rolled away in her sleep around 4.15 am. The accused claimed he covered her face, forced her into the already running car and sped off.
The girl’s father woke up hearing the commotion. He told police he heard his daughter cry out, “Papa, save me,” but by the time he tried to stop the car, the accused had driven away.
According to a police source, Singh claimed he slapped the girl when she tried to resist and threatened her. He then drove to an isolated spot near a forested area where he allegedly raped her.
Police said he then drove back to the spot where he had abducted the child, but spotted police and the victim’s parents searching for her.
Officers said the accused claimed that he turned around, drove towards the Gurgaon-Faridabad border, strangled the girl with a “gamcha (scarf)’, and dumped her body near the Aravalli hills after smashing her face with bricks to conceal her identity.
Later, Singh picked up another passenger and dropped them in Vikaspuri in West Delhi from where the Delhi Police nabbed him around 11 am — more than seven hours after the crime.
Singh, 29, has been in police custody for two days. (File Photo, AI enhanced) 
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