Following a botched attempt at rape, a six-year-old girl drowned in a water tank and had her head crushed with a stone to conceal her identity, according to police on Monday.
On suspicion of killing the girl, police have detained a 43-year-old private watchman who had been hired to protect the crops from stray cattle. Police claim that after failing in his attempt to rape the girl, watchman Rajveer Singh drowned her in a field’s water tank.
The six-year-old girl’s body was discovered in a field on 30 December in a village under the control of the Etmadpur Police Station in the Agra district.
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“As per the complaint of the father, an FIR was registered in the case under section 302 of IPC at Etmadpur Police Station in Agra district,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Suraj Kumar Rai told reporters.
The officer said that Rajveer Singh for a while pretended to help the villagers locate the girl, but it emerged that he was the last one to have been seen with the girl around 2 pm, so he was detained.
“During interrogation, Rajveer Singh confessed that he had caught the girl in the field and attempted to rape her. But she raised an alarm and foiled his attempt. So he drowned her in a water tank in the field and hit her with a sharp heavy stone on the head,” said Rai.
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Rajveer Singh was arrested and further legal action is being taken against him, he added.
(Source: PTI)
