In Bihar, 4 booked for rape, homicide of 12-yr-old

East Champaran police in Bihar have booked 4 individuals for alleged rape and homicide of a 12-year-old woman, and 7 others for alleged destruction of proof.
Two of them have been arrested, the police stated Saturday.
On Saturday, the native police station in-charge was suspended for purportedly delaying lodging an FIR and for not conducting a postmortem regardless of data of the crime.
All 11 accused have additionally been booked below POCSO Act.
The crime occurred on January 21 at a rented lodging at a market in East Champaran. The sufferer’s father, a resident of Nepal, sells tea through the day and works as nightwatchman on the native market, it’s learnt.

The accused allegedly burnt the sufferer’s physique and threatened her father with dire penalties; he didn’t method the police with a criticism. The sufferer’s father filed an software earlier than the sub divisional police officer of Motihari to file an FIR, which was finally registered on February 3. On February 2, an audio dialog between the police in-charge (identify withheld) and one Ramesh Sah went viral – in it, they have been heard purportedly discussing disposing of the woman’s physique.
East Champaran SP Navin Chandra Jha instructed the media: “We suspended the police station in-charge on Saturday for dereliction of duty, and for not conducting postmorem and delaying filing of FIR despite knowledge of the incident. We have taken serious note of the incident and are conducting raids to arrest the accused.”
In the FIR, the woman’s father acknowledged that she was alone at dwelling on January 21, together with her mom gone to Nepal and brother out for work, when the crime occurred.
All accused are from the locality the place the crime occurred.