A 16-year-old girl, who had gone missing on Thursday, was found murdered in a flat at Dwarka on Saturday morning. The police has arrested a 28-year-old man, who has reportedly confessed to having murdered her for resisting his attempt to rape her. The police said that the man lured her to a flat he had rented when she was returning from a coaching institute on Thursday.
The body was recovered from flat number 1481, Sector-16-B, Dwarka (which falls under the Vikaspuri police station), on Saturday at the instance of the accused, Om Yadav, a resident of Hastsal and a dealer in building material in west Delhi. The girl’s throat was slit. \
The police also seized the alleged weapon of offence, a knife, used by the accused. Om told the police that he slit the girl’s throat when she resisted his attempt to rape her. “However, rape cannot be ruled out unless the post-mortem report is received,” said a senior police officer.
The police said that the girl, daughter of an Army-man and a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, had left to attend coaching classes for medical entrance at an institute in Janakpuri.
Deputy commissioner of police (west), V. Renganathan, said that the accused had picked up the girl when she alighted from bus and took her to the flat in his Maruti car. Om knew the girl as he lived in the same locality and had struck a rapport with her.
The girl had called up her family around 1.30 am on Friday and again around 8.30 am in the morning, the police said. Each time she pleaded them to save her but the phone was disconnected soon.
The family members made inquiries among their acquaintances and lodged a formal complaint only after the second call. The brother of the victim, however, alleged that they first went to Janakpuri from where they were told to go to Vikaspuri and, in all this, crucial time was lost. The Janakpuri police checked out with the coaching institute and then with one of the victim’s friends,” Mr Renganathan said. Several people were rounded up and it was through local inquiries that the police zeroed-in on the Om.