The local city court on Monday ordered the police to remand four people, including two women, in the case of the rape of an orphan girl.
According to the initial police investigation, the girl’s brother-in-law and his neighbour sexually assaulted the victim for a month. When she became pregnant, the police said they planned to bury the body in the blood.
As the scope of the investigation in the case expanded, the police detained another person, who parked his vehicle at the girl’s brother-in-law’s house.
All the four were sent to four-day physical remand. The batons used by the suspects to torture the girl and the poison tablets given to the deceased woman are to be recovered by the police.
On the other hand, the police have taken DNA samples from the arrested suspects to identify the rapists/murderers and build evidence for criminal prosecution. As part of the investigation, the mobile phones of the suspects have also been confiscated by the police.
The four suspects have been arrested after the body of the 21-year-old orphan girl was exhumed. The crime was committed in the area of Gadhaga, Jatli police station, where it was found that she was one and a half months pregnant.
“Based on the circumstances and events, preliminary investigation, post-mortem examination and court evidence, there is strong evidence that the victim was raped and poisoned,” a police spokesperson said. The girl had been living with her sister-in-law since the death of her parents.
She was sexually assaulted by her sister-in-law and her husband and his neighbour. After she was eight months pregnant, she was tortured and forced to have an abortion. However, after their efforts proved futile, she was subjected to plastic surgery, and finally poisoned and buried.
