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Meerut | Updated: April 17, 2025 13:53 IST
The Uttar Pradesh Police said that the rape victim had multiple injury marks on her body and there were signs of burn injuries on her private parts; the 24-year-old accused was nabbed after an encounter.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested a man in an encounter for allegedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Dalit girl who is speech-and-hearing impaired in Rampur district. They said the 24-year-old accused suffered a bullet injury to his leg.
The police said that the victim had multiple injury marks on her body and signs of burn injuries on her private parts allegedly caused by smouldering cigarette butts.
“There is a possibility that she must have been raped by one more person as there are numerous injuries on her body and private parts. Her face was swollen, indicating that it had been struck by a heavy object. She is terrified and unable to explain her nightmare,” said the doctor who examined the girl.
According to the police, the girl was attacked after she had gone out along with her elder sister to bring cow dung on Tuesday evening.
“She usually remains outside the house during the daytime. But when she did not come home even late at night, we started searching for her. We made an announcement about the missing of our daughter from the loudspeaker of a mosque at night, but to no avail,” the girl’s mother stated in the First Information Report (FIR).
“We had formed three police teams after being informed by residents that a villager spotted the girl lying unconscious and naked with injury marks on her body. We scanned the CCTV footage and in one of the clips the accused was seen accompanying the girl to a desolate place where she was raped. We identified the accused, and when the police team tried to trap him, he opened fire, forcing the police to retaliate with the firing. He has been injured and admitted to the local hospital under police custody,” said Vidyasagar Mishra, the Superintendent of Police (SP), Rampur.
The police said they first took the girl to the primary health centre and later to the Meerut district hospital on Wednesday night.
The police said that the accused has been booked under Section 65-2 (for rape of a woman under 16 years of age) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and Section 5 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012.
