The girl has suffered more than 60 per cent burns and has been admitted in the ICU at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital.
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The Uttar Pradesh police arrested the accused, identified as Ajay Kumar, 18, who was in a relationship with the victim for the past one year. He then fled the spot.
Singh said the man “had burns on his hands” and was charged with several offenses, including rape, attempted murder, assault of a minor and causing grievous injury.
Victim’s parents said Ajay was harassing their daughter until she stopped going out.
On Monday, police in Mumbai said they were investigating whether a four-year-old girl whose body was dumped in bushes on the city’s outskirts had been raped before being killed, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. On the complaint of the girl’s mother, an FIR has been registered and hunt is on to nab the accused.
Police constable Yadram Singh said a 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping and attempting to burn the girl to death in Tigri village, near the New Delhi suburb of Noida. An FIR has been registered and a hunt is on for the accused, the police added.
“Witnesses have told us that the boy entered her house forcibly and after raping her he burnt her.
Circle Officer Rakesh Yadav said a police team has been deployed in Tigri to deal with any untoward incident arising from the alleged crime yesterday. The woman boarded the bus last night to go to Rampur but slept in the vehicle with her two children on the advice of the driver and conductor.
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According to the sources the girl left her breath at 3:30 am on Wednesday and the dead body of her had been sent to the post mortem in Safdurgunj hospital itself and the post-mortem report is awaited.
