Srinagar, Aug 3: Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a person involved in rape and murder of a minor girl in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday.
A police spokesman in a statement said that Police Station Beerwah received a written complaint that a girl has been kidnapped.
According to the complaint filed by one one Rajinder Chouhan of Sitapur Uttar Pradesh, presently working in a brick kiln in Beerawh area of Budgam district, his 05-year-old daughter was kidnapped by one person namely Sushil Kumar Chouhan son of Harso Lal resident of Sitapur Uttar Pradesh on the evening of 02/08/0219, who is also working at a brick kiln in Hayatpora area of Beerwah.
“Accordingly Budgam Police registered a case FIR No-134/2019 under relevant sections of law in P/S Beerwah and started searches to trace the missing girl. However, the dead body of said girl was retrieved by Police from nearby Nallah at Hayatpora,” said the spokesman.
“During the course of the investigation, officers learnt that the accused namely Sushil Kumar Chohan after kidnapping the girl had committed rape and murder of the said girl. Accused involved in the offence has been arrested and remains in Police custody,” he said.
“During the investigation, the dead body of the said girl was sent for post mortem and completion of other medico-legal formalities. FSL team also visited the scene of the crime which was preserved by the officers investigating the case for gathering important, physical, biological and material evidence,” he added.
Further investigation in the matter is going on,” said police a spokesman in a statement.
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