Girl out to buy groceries in Ratlam gang-raped by 3 men, drowned in pond

Mangalore Today News Network

Ratlam, Sep 07, 202: A 12-year-old girl who had gone missing in Ratlam after she went out to visit a neighbourhood store on Saturday evening, was gang-raped by three men before she was drowned and killed.

 

Police have arrested three accused who have been identified as Kallu, Deepak and Ravi, hailing from village Gujjarwada. All three work as cattle grazers to earn a living. “The three men were seen consuming liquor in the area around the time the girl went missing. During interrogation, they confessed to the crime,” Ratlam district SP Gaurav Tiwari said in a press conference on Monday.

The body of the victim was found in a maize field about 200 meters from the road on Sunday and at some distance her slippers and the goods she had bought from the neighbourhood shop were also found.

According to the police, the three men first took the victim to a field and took turns to rape her before taking her to a nearby pond where her head was forcefully pushed inside the water till she was dead. After confirming that the victim was dead, the accused dragged her body to the maize field and fled the spot.

According to the police, the three accused did not have any advance planning to commit the crime but kidnapped the girl once they spotted her alone.

“We are treating this as a rarest of rare heinous crime and will be filling a chargesheet in the next 15 days. We will try for conviction in the next six months,” district SP, Gaurav Tiwari said.


courtesy: IndiaToday