Three held for raping,killing 4-year-old

Three persons have been arrested by West Delhi police for allegedly raping and murdering a four-year-old girl in Kirti Nagar area. Police said the accused had raped and strangled the child on January 5 before dumping her body in a drain.

The accused were arrested on January 11. The body was noticed by a passerby on January 5. Police took the body to a nearby hospital,where an autopsy revealed that she was raped and sodomised by more than one person. The accused — Jawahar (30),Raj Kumar (24),and Birbal (26) — work as labourers at a construction site in Ramesh Nagar’s B-block area.

The first to be arrested was Jawahar,from Bihar. At his instance,police arrested the other two accused from Mayapuri area. Jawahar,who was known to the victim’s family,had taken the child out with her parents’ permission. A case of rape and murder has been registered against the three.