The Thane police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old man on prices of raping and murdering a minor lady in Mumbra. The crime got here to mild after locals heard a loud thud coming from a window duct and found a woman’s physique, which he had allegedly thrown from the opposite finish.
In line with the police, the locals discovered the physique of a partially-clothed lady after they checked the duct from the toilet of a first-floor residence in a constructing round 11 pm on Monday.
A police group reached the spot after they had been knowledgeable by locals and managed to retrieve the physique with the assistance of the hearth brigade. Emergency providers, together with personnel from the Mumbra police station, hearth brigade groups, regional catastrophe administration cell and a personal ambulance reached the spot.
In line with Thane Municipal Company’s chief Yasin Tadvi, the lady was discovered mendacity in a vertical duct working via the construction underneath unclear circumstances.
The officers retrieved the kid regardless of a difficult rescue operation because of the slim construction of the shaft. She was then taken to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa the place docs declared her introduced lifeless, Tadvi stated.
After the lady’s physique was recovered, a police probe group checked each flat within the constructing and located a window of the toilet within the accused particular person’s home open from the place he allegedly pushed the lady, a police official stated.
The police initially filed an unintended demise report. After the postmortem report indicated that the lady had been raped and murdered, they registered a case. A woman, who used to play with the sufferer, advised the police that the latter had been lured by a person who promised to provide her toys, and he had taken her to the constructing the place the physique was discovered.
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Based mostly on her description, the police began rounding up suspects and caught the accused. The opposite lady recognized him as the person who had lured her pal, the police stated, including that he confessed to the crime after sustained interrogation.
The police stated that some garments of the lady had been discovered the place the accused lived.
The incident was reported at 11.48 pm on Monday to the Thane Municipal Company’s catastrophe administration cell, Tadvi stated.
The police on Tuesday initially registered a case underneath sections 103 (homicide) and 238 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence, or giving false data to display screen offender) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and provisions of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in opposition to the person, a police official stated.
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An post-mortem was performed on the sufferer, which confirmed that she was raped and her throat was slit with a pointy weapon, he stated.
Based mostly on the post-mortem report, the police added BNS sections 96 (procuration of a kid), 137 (2) (kidnapping), 64 (rape), 64 (I) (raping lady incapable of giving consent), 65 (2) (rape on lady underneath 12 years of age) and 238 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offence or giving false data to display screen offender), he stated.
(with PTI inputs)
