A 7-year-old girl was reportedly raped and murder in Ghaziabad. | Representative Image
Ghaziabad: A seven-year-old girl from Ghaziabad was declared dead after allegedly consuming food given to her by her neighbour, Shanti Devi. However, shocking revelations were made after her autopsy was conducted.
The autopsy revealed that the girl was raped and murdered. As per police investigations, the minor’s father raped and strangulated her to death and falsely accused the neighbour to cover up his own involvement in the murder. The police later arrested him on Monday, March 17.
Father’s False Allegations
The father alleged that the girl fell severely ill after consuming a ‘kadhi’ prepared by their neighbour, Shanti Devi. He falsely claimed that the girl died at the GTB Hospital in Delhi during the treatment.
He further added that the kadhi was eaten by six other members of his family, who all allegedly got diarrhea later.
Shanti, a resident of the Loni border, was later arrested by the police under BNS Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).
Police Arrested the Father After Autopsy Report
The police arrested the father following the autopsy report. The 52-year-old, also a father of five children, had devised a plan to cover up the crime, using his other children as alibi. As per the police, he got himself and his children diagnosed at the OPD at the GTB hospital with a stomach infection. After the check-up, they were released from the hospital and sent home.
As per a report by The Times of India, ACP Ajay Kumar Singh, Ankur Vihar, stated that the father tried to prevent a postmortem at GTB Hospital and disappeared after performing his daughter’s last rites.
During questioning, the father confessed to the crime, stating he was drunk and took his sleeping daughter to another room where he raped and strangled her when she cried.
The next morning, he told a friend his daughter was sick from eating kadhi and took her to a local clinic, then to GTB Hospital where she was declared dead. Police added that the father instructed his other children to pretend they had stomach aches at the hospital.
