UP: Police arrest relative of 15-year-old, who was raped and murdered in Etah

AGRA: Three days after a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Etah district, on Saturday police claimed to have identified two accused and apprehended one of them.
Identified as 19-year-old Saurab and Kamal (18), residents of Nagla Baldev, the two are distant relatives of the girl, who was killed just 200 meters away from her inter-college, where she took admission last week for class XI.
According to police, the main accused Saurab is still absconding, while Kamal was nabbed from Murli trisection on Friday night, while he was attempting to flee away.
“During interrogation Kamal spilled the beans and informed us that Saurab and the victim knew each other for long time. Saurab was inclined toward her, but after taking admission in new inter college, the girl started avoiding him, as she wanted to focus on studies. But Saurab believed that the victim was in relationship with other youth. On Wednesday morning, the duo came on a motorbike and waylaid the victim. They dragged her in nearby shrubs of dry canal, strangulated her with her stole (uniform). Believing her to unconscious, the two raped her, but the victim was already dead,” said circle officer of Aliganj, Ajay Bhadoria who led the investigation team.
Further speaking to TOI, Bhadoria said, “Saurab is very smart. He has switched off his phone in order to doge our surveillance team, who is trying to trace him down. Soon we will arrest him.”
On July 18 morning, the victim’s body was found along with her bicycle and school bag near Devtara village, which is three kilometre away from victim’s village Gaisingpur.
The two accused were booked under IPC section 302 (murder), 376 (rape) and POCSO act.