Hapur horror: Three sketches of same suspect who raped 6-year-old girl made

MEERUT: Police in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh have released three sketches of the same man suspected to have raped a six-year-old girl, based on inputs of different witnesses, who saw him luring the minor to his bike on August 6. The girl was later raped, brutalised and abandoned in a forest area where she was recovered by one of the search and rescue teams the following day, almost 12 hours after she had gone missing.
She is currently in critical condition in Meerut hospital after having sustained severe injuries in her private parts, leading to sustained blood loss.
According to sources in the police department, the accused has been identified based on one of the sketches and police teams are trying to zero in on him. "He (the accused) is trying to hoodwink the police by consistently changing his location and not using his mobile phone. He visited the district and has relatives here in one of the neighbouring villages where the incident took place," an investigating officer said.
The massive manhunt entered the third day on Sunday, with senior police officials sounding confident of having identified the accused.
The health of minor rape survior -- who, the local police had claimed, was stable -- has started deteriorating. Apart from abrasions on her outer body, she continuously lost blood and her condition became worse due to injuries on her private parts. After her primary treatment in Hapur, she was referred to Meerut on August 7 where she continues to be under medical observation.
“Her private parts have been significantly damaged. It can't be immediately treated as the tissues got scattered. A separate tube has been surgically placed to ensure disposal of faecal matter,” a doctor at LLRM had told TOI.