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Goa: A 5-year-old girl was found raped and murdered at a construction site in south Goa’s Vasco. After the incident, a senior police official said to media the police has rounded up 20 suspects for questioning.
Superintendent of Police (South) Sunita Sawant said that the minor was found unconscious at the construction site located in Vadem area after which she was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. However, she was declared dead on arrival by the doctors.
He added,”The girl’s dead body has been examined by the police surgeon and a post-mortem has been conducted. The post-mortem has confirmed that the girl was sexually assaulted after which she was murdered by strangling… We have rounded up nearly 15-20 labourers working in the building.”
Giving details about this incident, the senior police official said that after the postmortem reports confirmed rape and murder due to strangulation. After this, Vasco Police registered a case on behalf of the state of sexual assault and murder under sections 376, 302 of the Indian Penal Code, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POSCO), and also under the Goa Children Act.
Further probe into the matter is currently underway. The victim’s parents are said to be migrant labourers from West Bengal, according to the information. According to the report, the girl’s father was on duty on Friday night and his five-year-old daughter was with him. He asked her to come back home, where her mother was sleeping.
However, when he returned home from work at 2 am, his daughter was missing. The report quoted a police officer as saying, “Later the family found the girl’s body behind a building near their house and rushed her to a hospital, where she was declared dead.”
