8-year-old girl raped, murdered & thrown into well in Pratapgarh

UDAIPUR: An 8-year-old girl was ‘gang-raped’, murdered and thrown into a well in Meghpura village under Pithalwadi gram panchayat of Chhoti Sadri block in Pratapgarh district late night on Friday. Police found her body from the dry well in the wee hours of Saturday. The medical report has indicated that the child was sexually abused and strangled to death.Cops have rounded up over 50 suspects and detained a few. However, police said that it has not been ascertained yet whether it was a gang-rape.
Pratapgarh SP Chuna Ram Jat visited the spot and called for speedy action. Cops have rounded up over 50 persons from the village in two days and a dog squad has been pressed into service to find the culprits.
Chhoti Sadri SHO Ravindra Pratap Singh told TOI that the child was sleeping with her mother and sister in her kutchha house. Her father had gone to Marwar to buy goats. The women were alone and some unidentified men sneaked into the house after midnight and took the child away.
The family informed the police after they found the girl was missing. Within hours her body was found from the nearby well. The FSL team has taken samples from the spot. The officer said the accused had raped the child near the well, choked her to death and dumped the body into the well.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)