On Monday (August 11), the police arrested a 22 year-old-man named Mohammed Abbas in connection to the grotesque homicide of a minor lady. The incident came about in Matigara within the Siliguri subdivision of West Bengal.
As per studies, the sufferer (identify withheld) was attacked by Abbas whereas she was returning residence from faculty. The accused took the underage lady inside an deserted home at Rabindrapally and allegedly tried to rape her.
When she resisted, he smashed her face with a brick. The locals heard her screams and located the sufferer, mendacity in a pool of blood, sporting the college uniform. She breathed her final quickly after. The sufferer was a pupil of Class 11 at a Nepali medium faculty.
“This afternoon, when a girl was passing through the area, she heard someone screaming and informed her family. Her family members along with her neighbours rushed to the spot to investigate when they saw the body of the girl,” an area resident named Raju Bose mentioned.
On receiving details about the matter, ACP Rajen Chhetri, DCP Abhishek Gupta and different police officers reached the spot. The physique of the sufferer was despatched to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem. In the meantime, the cops started analysing CCTV footage and speaking to the native residents.
They have been capable of confirm the id of the accused. The Matigara police and the Special Operations Group (SOG) launched a manhunt and arrested Mohammed Abbas from his hideout within the Lenin Colony of Siliguri.
He has reportedly confessed to committing the heinous crime. The cops at the moment are investigation the sexual assault angle. On Tuesday (August 22), Abbas was produced earlier than an area courtroom and remanded to 10 days in police custody.
Members of native, voluntary organisations protested in opposition to the grotesque killing of the minor lady exterior the courtroom premises. They additionally pelted stones on the police.
