Infant girl raped, murdered in MP

Bhopal: In a gruesome incident, a six-month-old girl was abducted, raped and then murdered in district headquarters town of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, the police said on Saturday.

The accused, Suneel Bheel (21), who committed the heinous crime early on Friday morning to “avenge” the snub he had received from the victim’s mother, was thrashed by irate mob gathered outside the local court where he was produced on Saturday.

The heartrending incident, coming in the wake of national outcry over the Kathua gangrape and murder case in which an eight-year-old girl was allegedly sexually tortured and murdered in Jammu in January, has left MP stunned and shocked. “The ghastly incident has shaken my soul. Our society must introspect,” CM Shivraj  Singh Chouhan said.

According to the the police, the accused, a relation of the victim, kidnapped her when she was asleep with her parents outside the Rajwada Fort in Indore city and took her to the basement of a nearby commercial building where she allegedly raped her and thrown her on the floor leading to her death. The footage of a CCTV installed in the locality has shown him carrying the baby to the commercial building in the wee hours of Friday and later coming out of it empty handed. Post-mortem report has revealed injuries in her private part, head and face, the police said.

The victim’s father eked out living by selling balloons.