A 19-year-old pupil, who was murdered in a mango orchard alongside the railway tracks in Udvada city of Valsad, was raped earlier than she was choked to demise, the autopsy report has confirmed, officers mentioned on Saturday. Even because the accused was but to be recognized 48 hours after the incident, police filed a case of rape and homicide.
Ten groups of the Valsad district police have fanned for clues and to search out the teenager’s cell phone, which may result in the accused as she had allegedly “gone lacking” after chatting with an unidentified particular person as per her good friend’s account to the police.
Following the affirmation of sexual assault within the autopsy report, the Valsad district police have intensified the probe into the case, utilizing technical intelligence in addition to their sources. Whereas the police have recovered a sim card from the location of the incident, her cell phone is but to be recovered.
A police official mentioned that the sufferer’s telephone may have a direct clue to the accused as in response to her good friend — who had knowledgeable her sister that she had gone ‘lacking’ — the sufferer had accepted the decision of “another particular person” and was “thereafter unreachable”. The good friend had additionally requested the sufferer’s sister to achieve Udvada, the place the teenager attended tuition courses and was on her method again dwelling when she was allegedly murdered.
An official mentioned, “Technical surveillance is being undertaken to search out clues. The groups have additionally gathered footage from the CCTV cameras within the neighborhood to scan the actions of the time that she handed via the world. The decision element information of the sufferer’s telephone may even give us a route. We’re additionally searching for the cell phone to determine who she spoke to on her final name.”
