Boy, 15, resists bid to rape sis, gets killed

PATNA

: A 15-year-old boy was strangulated to death for resisting a co-villager’s bid to rape his 18-year-old sister in

Muhammadpur village

in Saran district on Tuesday. Police have launched a manhunt to trace the 21-year-old accused.


Paramilitary forces meant for election duty and policemen were deployed in the village as a precautionary measure to prevent communal tensions.


In her complaint, the girl alleged that her 15-year-old brother and minor sister resisted when the accused barged into their house and tried to drag her out in a bid to rape her,

Chhapra sadar

SDPO Muneshwar Prasad Singh said.

Police booked the accused and raided several places, including his relatives’ houses to arrest him, Manjhi SHO Niraj Kumar Mishra said.The minor’s body was handed over to his family after postmortem.

The SDPO said the accused had cleared matriculation and intermediate examinations. “He was a first-year BA student in a

Chhapra

college and was simultaneously preparing to crack competitive examinations to enter the armed forces,” he said. \