Surat, December 29
A Surat court on Wednesday sentenced a 27-year-old man to life imprisonment "for the remainder of his natural life" in a case of rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in April th
Surat: A labourer from Madhya Pradesh was arrested on Saturday evening for the alleged raping and brutal murder of a five-year-old girl living in his neighbourhood in Hazira on April 30.
The 27-year-old accused Sujit Saket told police that he committed the crime as he had a rift with her father over a petty fight that took place in 2019.
Police said that when the girl had gone to answer nature’s call in the open near her house, Saket bumped into her. He lured the girl by offering money to buy chocolate and took her to an uninhabited room behind their housing colony. Saket admitted to police that he raped and sodomized the girl too. When she started shouting, Saket hit her with a brick on her head and later strangulated her. Saket then dumped her body in bushes behind the room.