Four-year-old raped & murdered in Chhatarpur; SIT ordered

BHOPAL

: In yet another gory incident, a four-year-old child was raped and murdered. Three days after the ghastly incident that took place in a

small village

of Chhatarpur district, cops still had no clue.

A special investigating team (SIT ) was constituted , an SHO was suspended and SDO (Police) was served a show cause notice on Monday. Inspector general o f police also announced a reward of Rs 25,000 on information that leads to the arrest of the accused. The girl was found missing on the night of May 28 and her body was fished out from a well on May 29. The incident took place in Vangai village, about 20 kms away from Chhatarpur district headquarters, under

Naugaon police station

.

Family members

said that the girl was sleeping at home on the night of May 28 along with her grandfather, but was found missing next morning. The family alleged that police was informed, but cops did not respond.

On May 29 , a villager spotted the body in a dug -well and it was later retrieved. Though the police started investigation, rape was not confirmed.

Thereafter, the body was sent for post- mortem . On May 31, SP Kumar Saurabh reached Naugaon and suspended SHO BN Sharma on June 1, reportedly for not informing him about the short PM report.

The PM report was leaked on May 31 and people came to know about incident.

Cases were registered under different sections -376 ( rape) , POCSO ( protection of children from sexual offences act) and 363 (kidnapping) - against the accused.

In the fast turn of events, the DIG and IG also rushed to the spot in the morning. First, the SP announced a reward of Rs 10,000 for relevant information that leads to the arrest of the accused.

The IG increased the amount to Rs 25,000 and also announced an SIT to look into the case. IG Anil Sharma said, “Some suspects were rounded up and SIT has started working immediately on the case.”

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)