A 17-year-old girl was raped and her minor cousin was murdered allegedly by a man known to the family at their house in northwest Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar area on Saturday morning.
While the girl was bleeding and wrapped in a bedsheet, the boy was strangled to death. The girl also had injury just below the eyebrow.
The accused has been identified as Raju (22), the victim’s fiancée who used to live in the neighbourhood. The accused is on the run.
“The parents of the girl had gone to attend a funeral of one of their relatives. The girl was at home with her brother Satender (5) and cousin Rahul (8). After having dinner, Satender had gone to sleep in the room of Raju. Rahul and the girl were sleeping together. On Saturday morning when Satender did not find Raju in the room, he went to his house where he found his sister lying in a pool of blood and Rahul was murdered. He then alerted their landlady as their parents were not present at home,” the police said.
A police team was immediately rushed to the spot and all the victims were shifted to a nearby hospital where Rahul was declared brought dead while the girl has been admitted to the ICU of the hospital.
The official said that preliminary investigations suggests that the victim’s father wanted the girl to marry Raju, but she did not like him. She had also told her father that she would not marry Raju.
“Neighbours told us that Raju used to work in a nearby factory and had been known to her father for a long time. We suspect that on Friday night he went to meet the girl and had tried to develop physical relation with her. He attacked the girl when she resisted his attempts. Her cousin might have joined them after which he was killed by the accused,” said a source.
The police said that they have lodged a case in this respect under relevant Sections of the IPC. Several police teams were roped to nab the accused.
