Ujjain girl murder: Body found in sack, 4 accused held, rape suspected

Over twenty-four hours after the three and half years old girl went missing while playing outside her house, her body was found in a sack thrown in a drain near Kamal Colony in the Ujjain area in Madhya Pradesh. CCTV footage also emerged showing the accused shifting the dead body. Four persons have been detained so far.

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) : The dead body of the three-and-a-half-year-old innocent girl, who went missing while playing outside her house at Kamal Colony under the Chimanganj police station area, was found in a closed drain after 24 hours. Preliminary investigation revealed that the girl was murdered and there was also an attempt to rape her.

Four suspects including two women living in the neighbourhood were taken into custody by the police in this matter and they were being questioned. The police registered a case under the sections of kidnapping, murder and concealment of evidence. The CCTV footage of shifting the dead body has also surfaced. The girl was allegedly suffocated to death by pressing her nose and mouth.

The police said that neighbour Ajay aged 21 years lured the girl into the house and tried to rape her. But during this, the innocent girl suffered from suffocation and she breathed her last. In a panic, Ajay told his sister Ranu, 19, and mother Milan Bai, who were present in the house at that time. His sister called her boyfriend Vicky Thakur.

Together, they pressed the girl's mouth and nose till her death and drowned her in water, the police said. Then the accused took the body of the girl to the terrace and packed it in a sack. Then Ranu's boyfriend Vicky Thakur put the sack containing the girl's body in front of a white-coloured scooter to Valmiki Dham Ashram where he threw it in the drain. Later the family kept misleading the police and told the police in a statement that the girl died after falling into the water tank while she was playing in the house.

ASP Akash Bhuria said that the investigation is going on and the suspects have been detained. Further reports are awaited to confirm whether the girl has been raped or not. Ajay is accused of attempted rape. The father of the victim's girl works as a caterer. The girl's mother is crippled and cannot walk. When the girl was playing outside the house, the mother was inside. The girl's family had friendly relations with the neighbours, so she went to them. The incident reportedly took place on Tuesday afternoon and the case surfaced belatedly.