In a horrific incident, the burnt body of a 14-year-old girl has been recovered from a brick furnace in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. The locals alleged that the minor girl was raped before she was thrown into the furnace.
According to the Police statement, they received information about the incident from the family members of the minor girl who went looking for her after she went missing for several hours. Four persons have been arrested from Nrisinghpura village on the suspicion of raping a this minor girl and later killing and burning her body in a coal furnace.
The family members of the minor girl went looking for her after she went missing for several hours. According to the girl’s brother, she went missing after leaving home in the morning to graze the cattle.
“We started looking for her in the afternoon when the cattle returned but my sister didn’t return with them,” he said.
He added, later in the night around 10pm they reached the coal furnace area looking for her and noticed human bones in one of the furnaces which was burning despite rainfall and informed the police immediately.
Police said upon getting a complaint from the victim’s family, they reached the spot and detained three persons from there who had confessed to the family about the alleged gang rape and murder before the police’s arrival.
“Police have also recovered the girl’s bracelets and shoes. A forensic team has been probed considering the seriousness of the matter. A DNA test will also be conducted of the bone samples found at the furnace for further investigation,” said Bhilawar police superintendent (SP) Adarsh Sindhu.
Kotri police station house officer (SHO) Khivraj Singh said that the accused have been taken into custody and are being interrogated. “The family is in the process of filing the formal report. We are waiting on the forensics report for further investigation,” Singh said.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan Gurjar Mahasabha president and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kalulal Gurjar reportedly reached the spot and called on the district collector and the SP before conducting any forensics test of the samples.
What a brutal episode, indeed! Such incidents occur now and then in Rajasthan attesting to the utter failure of the Govt. to curb such jihadist violence perpetrated against the Hindus. Rastrapathy should clamp Emergecy Rule in Rajasthan.