Srinagar: As the country is still jostling with the rising rape cases and Kathua case which has created an international uproar about the bad condition of women rights in India, a six-month-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on Friday, Indian Express reported.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said the accused has been arrested and a probe is underway into the case, IE reported quoting news agency PTI.
Blood-soaked body of the infant was found in the basement of a building in Rajwada area and post-mortem, suggested the girl might have been raped before being murdered as her private part bore an injury mark, IE report reads.
The accused identified as Sunil Bheel (21), has been arrested.
“The accused, Sunil Bheel, had kidnapped her in the morning when she was asleep with her parents outside the Rajwada Fort. The accused was sleeping close to the family,” HC Mishra, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Indore, said, adding that Bheel was known to the family, report says.