TNN | Jan 23, 2013, 02.29 AM IST
KARIMNAGAR: A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a 21-year-old youth at the Odela railway station on Tuesday.
The culprit, Rajesh, who was travelling in the Intercity express from Adilabad to Secunderabad, got down from the train at the Odela station and accosted the girl moving about on the platform. He took her into the nearby cotton fields and raped her. He then tried to dump the body of the girl at a nearby agricultural well.
The victim's parents belong to Pothkupally village which is near the railway station and the girl had come to the railway platform with some other children to play there.
The villagers who noticed the suspicious movements of Rajesh beat him up severely when they saw the body of the girl. He was then handed over to the police. The body of the girl was sent to the area hospital at Odela for autopsy.
Peddapally DSP Lakshminarayana said Rajesh had been arrested and a case registered.
Following the incident of rape and murder, the locals resorted to a rail roko at the Odela station.
Incidentally, around the same time, Peddapally police were holding a meeting on the atrocities against women at Peddapally.
Link: Youth rapes, kills 3-yr-old girl
The culprit, Rajesh, who was travelling in the Intercity express from Adilabad to Secunderabad, got down from the train at the Odela station and accosted the girl moving about on the platform. He took her into the nearby cotton fields and raped her. He then tried to dump the body of the girl at a nearby agricultural well.
The victim's parents belong to Pothkupally village which is near the railway station and the girl had come to the railway platform with some other children to play there.
The villagers who noticed the suspicious movements of Rajesh beat him up severely when they saw the body of the girl. He was then handed over to the police. The body of the girl was sent to the area hospital at Odela for autopsy.
Peddapally DSP Lakshminarayana said Rajesh had been arrested and a case registered.
Following the incident of rape and murder, the locals resorted to a rail roko at the Odela station.
Incidentally, around the same time, Peddapally police were holding a meeting on the atrocities against women at Peddapally.
Link: Youth rapes, kills 3-yr-old girl
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