Man rapes and kills teen in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur, tries to move it off as suicide

By PTI

KORBA: A teenage lady was allegedly raped and killed by a 23-year-old man in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district and the latter tried to move it off as a case of suicide, police mentioned on Sunday.

The incident passed off on March 24 and through a probe into it, the police on Saturday arrested the person, recognized as Sabir Ali alias Baba Khan, who allegedly strangled the sufferer to dying after which hanged the physique from a ceiling fan at her home in Bhatgaon police station limits, Surajpur Addl SP Harish Rathore mentioned.

As per preliminary investigation, the sufferer, a Class XII scholar, appeared for her sensible examination on Thursday after which returned dwelling in Surajpur, situated round 300 km from the state capital Raipur. Her mom was in Bilaspur to deal with her ailing father, who was admitted in a hospital there, whereas her youthful brother had gone out of dwelling to play, the official mentioned.

“On finding the victim alone in the house, the accused went there. He allegedly raped her and then strangled her to death with her scarf. The man then hanged the body from a ceiling fan and wrote a note on her hand with a pen to make it appear as a case of suicide,” the official mentioned.

Later, the sufferer’s brother and neighbours discovered her hanging and knowledgeable the police, he mentioned. Based on the investigation, the accused was arrested and booked beneath Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (homicide), 376 (rape) and different related provisions, the official mentioned.

“The exact age of the deceased is yet to be ascertained and if she is found to be a minor, provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act will be included in the case,” he added. On Saturday, numerous folks gathered in Jarhi space of Surajpur to pay tributes to the sufferer and demanded dying sentence for the accused.