Tripura man sent to judicial custody for alleged rape, murder of granddaughter

The accused was arrested from Assam’s Sribhumi district, where he purportedly fled after the incident, they added.

“The maternal grandfather of the girl was arrested on Sunday, within 24 hours of the incident. He was produced before a local court yesterday with a plea for demanding his police custody for further interrogation,” Avinash Rai, District Superintendent of Police, North Tripura, told reporters on Monday.

However, the court sent him to judicial custody for 12 days.

According to the police, the girl’s mother, who is married to a family in Assam’s Sribhumi district, had come to her ancestral house in North Tripura on Saturday along with her daughter and husband. “Sometime later, the accused reportedly took his granddaughter away from her parents, saying he would give her a tour of the vicinity on Saturday. The family tried to search for the two after they were missing for several hours, but in vain. They alerted the police, and a joint search by the police and local villagers found the girl’s body buried in mud in a local paddyfield on Sunday.

The police officer also said that the accused was charged with different sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.

“The police are prioritising the investigation and work is in progress to submit the chargesheet soon,” Rai said.

The police said they are waiting for the post-mortem report on the girl.

Other recent sexual assault incidents

Earlier this month, a 55-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting and raping a minor girl, and then administering poison to her in the West Tripura district.

Last month, an autorickshaw driver was arrested for his alleged involvement in an incident of sexual harassment of a minor girl in Khowai district.

Earlier on August 22, the police detained two people based on a complaint of a minor rape in Gomati district of Tripura. One of the detainees was a relative of the rape-survivor, who is 16 years old.

In May, a man was arrested on the charge of abduction and rape of a 14-year-old girl, three days after the incident.

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