Bhubaneswar: A seven-year-old minor girl from Odisha was allegedly raped and murdered by her neighbour in Surat. Police recovered the body of the victim wrapped in a polythene sheet from the neighbour’s house 11 hours after the incident.
According to sources, the victim was residing at Tirupatinath Nagar Society at Badinath Square along with her family. The minor girl had gone to feed biscuits to dogs when the accused took her to his house forcefully and raped her.
The accused killed her, wrapped the body in a polythene sheet and fled. The accused, Mukesh has been arrested and forwarded to the court. The accused is a history sheeter with 14 cases against him. The Odia Samaj in Gujarat has demanded death penalty for the accused.