After Kathua rape case, the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been rocked with yet another rape case, where a woman allegedly got her nine-year-old stepdaughter raped by her son and three others and after the rape, her eyes were gouged out and acid was poured on her body, said police.
The accused did all this because she didn’t like her husband paying more attention to his other wife- the victim’s mother, police said.
The child’s mutilated body was found in the forest of Boniyar and Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district and nine accused have been arrested for raping and killing the child including her stepmother, and stepbrother.
The girl had gone missing on August 24 and all efforts to trace her failed. Her body was found on Sunday which led to protest in the area.
Baramulla’s senior superintendent of police (SSP), Imtiyaz Hussain told HT that the victim’s father has two wives- one who’s the accused from the nearby village and another from Jharkhand who was the mother is the victim.
The autopsy confirmed raped and torture and police worked accordingly.
“During sustained questioning of the step-mother of the deceased and other suspects, a bone-chilling and horrible account of the rape and murder of the nine-year-old child came to be known,” Hussain said.
Police told that on August 24, Fahmeeda, armed with the knife took her stepdaughter to the forest.
“While she was on way to forests with her step-daughter, she signalled her son, aged 14, to be ready. He, later on, joined his mother in the forest area, along with two of his friends - Kaiser Ahmad, aged 19 and another, aged 14 of Trikanjan Boniyar. Accused Naseer Ahmad Khan, 28 also joined them,” said Hussain.
The victim was then gang-raped by the stepbrother and his friends before being mercilessly murdered.
It was Kaiser who first raped her and then all others, including her step-brother, took turns to rape the girl. Thereafter, the step-mother strangulated the girl and her step-brother hit her head with axe killing her on spot. After that, one of the accused went back to his home and brought acid. Then the girl’s eyes were gouged out and acid was sprinkled on her body. Physical condition and preliminary forensic analysis of dead body substantiated all these facts,” the SSP said.
Two of the accused then threw her body in bushes and concealed it with twigs and branches. “All the material and weapons including axe and knife have been recovered at the instance of the accused,” the SSP added.
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