GURUGRAM: A 7-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man from the neighbourhood who lured her to his house with a candy and murdered when she raised an alarm in Surajkund on Tuesday. The man, whom she called “bhaiya”, was arrested within hours as he was seen accompanying the girl on CCTV footage.The girl and her family, police said, were tenants of the 21-year-old accused earlier but had recently shifted to another house in the neighbourhood. On Tuesday morning, she was on her way to school when the accused gave her a candy and asked her to accompany him to his room. The man allegedly inserted a blunt object into her private parts. When she raised an alarm, he strangled her with a towel, slit her throat with a blade and smashed a brick into her forehead.The accused then wrapped her body with a rug, loaded it onto his bike and dumped it in the bushes some distance away.The parents of the girl, who were unaware of the alleged raped and murder till then, launched a search for her in the neighbourhood. A few hours later, they approached the cops. The police scanned CCTV footage and saw the accused walking along with the girl.”The CCTV footage made everything clear. It clearly shows the man accompanying the girl. He took her to his house and tried to rape her there. When she raised an alarm, he killed her. He has confessed to the crime,” police spokesperson Sube Singh said.The man, who studied till Class 10, repaired mobile phones for a living.An FIR was registered against him for murder and under relevant sections of the Pocso Act.(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court’s directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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