The police have arrested a 23-year-old man for allegedly brutally raping and murdering his two-year-old stepdaughter in Mumbai’s Mankhurd space on Friday. The incident occurred on Thursday.
The kid’s mom works as a home assist. She separated from her first husband and married a second man, who’s a tempo driver. They have been residing in a rented home in a chawl. Based on the police, on Thursday night, when the lady’s mom was away at work, the accused man allegedly beat the lady when nobody was at house.
He then allegedly sexually assaulted her, gagged her, and inserted a wood object into her non-public half. He later strangulated her utilizing his arms, the police mentioned.
“After the kid died, the accused man concocted a narrative to avoid wasting himself. He known as up his spouse and instructed her {that a} wood block fell on the lady and he or she was mendacity unconscious. Her mom rushed again house and, together with the accused, took the lady to the close by public hospital. On the hospital, the lady was declared useless,” a senior police officer mentioned.
The police have been knowledgeable, and because the girl grew to become suspicious of her second husband, she fought with him on the hospital. The police detained him and subjected him to sustained interrogation, throughout which he admitted to having killed the lady, the police mentioned.
A preliminary probe revealed the accused man hated the kid as she was from his spouse’s first husband, a police officer mentioned. He additionally instructed the police that he seen the lady as an impediment between him and his spouse. Therefore he was annoyed together with her and on Thursday killed her.
“The accused was instantly arrested and was produced in court docket. The court docket has remanded him to police custody. Now we have arrested the accused on prices of homicide, amongst others, and are additional investigating the matter,” mentioned Navnath Dhavale, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 6.
The police have arrested the accused man below sections 103(3), 64(2)(F), 64(2)(1), 64(2)(m), 65(2), 66, and 238 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and 4, 6, 8, and 10 of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Although the police have invoked sections of the POCSO Act within the case, they’re but to get a report and a affirmation on allegations of sexual assault from the medical doctors.
