The dpa News reported a
railway police officer Ehtesham Waquarib as informing that three men, two were
believed to have sexually assaulted and killed the girl and a third, who is the
mother’s partner, were arrested late Tuesday.
The Indian Police on
Thursday confirmed arrest of three men who allegedly raped and beheaded a
three-year-old girl in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand.
The girl was sleeping with
her mother at the Tatanagar railway station in Jamshedpur city last Friday when
she went missing. A police complaint was filed at the time.
CCTV footage showed a man
walking away with a sleeping child in his arms, helping the police to identify
the suspects.
”We arrested two suspects
in their thirties, who led us to the mutilated body of the child, which was
found in a bag at an isolated place.
”They confessed to raping,
strangling and beheading the child,” Waquarib said.
One of the suspects
recently served a sentence for kidnapping a child and attempting to kill her in
2015, the police said.
The police said the mother
told the police she suspected her partner of involvement in the crime and his
role is being investigated.
He added that sniffer dogs
were being used to find the child’s head which is still missing.
This is the latest in the
series of brutal incidents of rape and sexual violence reported from India.
India has been in the
spotlight in recent years over incidents of sexual violence against women.
In 2012, the fatal gang
rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi led to massive public outcry and
tougher laws.
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