Delhi Horror: 52-year-old man crashes car after rape and murder of 9-year-old girl

In the Swaroop Nagar neighborhood of north Delhi, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped, and killed, according to police on Tuesday.

“We received a call about the kidnapping of a nine-year-old girl at 8:30 p.m. on December 12. Teams were assembled to apprehend the accused, Sanjeev Rana (52), after police filed a FIR under Section 363 (kidnapping), according to a senior police officer.

The victim’s parents reported to the police that their daughter was abducted by a man while she was playing outside the house. The parents are laborers in a factory and rent an apartment.

The victim was discovered to have been sitting in the accused’s car on December 12 at around 2:00 PM, according to police.

“While the search of the girl was going on, the accused met with a road accident and was admitted at a hospital in Rohini on December 15. Police team was sent to the hospital, but he was unfit for statement,” said the police officer.

The accused confessed to abducting, raping and murder of the girl child on December 17 and dumping her body in the Munak Canal, police said.

“We are checking entire routes of the accused and the accused will be brought in to search for the victim’s body on Tuesday,” said the police officer.

An FIR has been registered under sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, police said.

Different police teams are searching for the victim’s body, they said.

(with inputs from PTI)