This story is from June 29, 2022

Madhya Pradesh: 9-yr-old raped, killed; last walk with suspect caught on CCTV

A 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a 45-year old man, a distant relative, who lured her away with promise of ice-cream, Gwalior police said on Tuesday. There is CCTV footage of the child walking hand-in-hand with the suspect. That was the last time she was seen alive.
Madhya Pradesh: 9-yr-old raped, killed; last walk with suspect caught on CCTV
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BHOPAL: A 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a 45-year old man, a distant relative, who lured her away with promise of ice-cream, Gwalior police said on Tuesday. There is CCTV footage of the child walking hand-in-hand with the suspect. That was the last time she was seen alive.
Listed as missing for two days, her half-clad body was found near railway tracks, around 2km from where she lived, on Tuesday morning.
Her head was crushed and a blood-smeared stone lay nearby. The suspect is on the run.
“The accused has been identified. He was known to the victim since he is the maternal uncle of her father. He is missing since the incident,” Gwalior SP Amit Sanghi told TOI.
According to preliminary probe, the girl was last seen playing near her house with his elder brother, who is 12 years old, at 3pm on June 26. A little later, the boy returned home but she didn’t. When the parents asked the brother, he said she had “gone for ice-cream with uncle”.
The parents enquired with the family of the accused and were told that the girl had returned home after taking the icecream, said sources. Alarmed, the parents went to police.
Search parties were sent out but there was no sign of the child.
Then, police learned that the suspect was missing, too. “On the evening of June 26, he returned home late in the evening, changed his clothes and left. He hasn’t been seen since then,” said SP Sanghi.

Police suspect he had already killed the child by then. Her body was found on Tuesday morning. She had no clothes on the lower half of her body and there were deep head wounds. There were signs of strangulation as well. Police suspect he strangled the child and then bludgeoned her to ensure she was dead.
“We are waiting for the detailed post-mortem report, but circumstantial evidence suggests it is rape and murder. Cause of death will be clear in the autopsy report but both throttling and head injury could be the cause,” Sanghi said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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