4-Year-Old Raped In MP

The girl was Dumped In Bushes…

Bhopal: A four-year-old girl was raped and found after a 16-hour-search, bleeding and dumped in bushes in Khandwa district is the third case of a minor being raped in Madhya Pradesh in just 7 days.

The four-year-old was found on Tuesday and police arrested a 22-year-old restaurant worker for the crime. He'd got the child to trust him by showing her videos on his mobile phone, police said. 

The child has been referred to a hospital in Indore as she was seriously injured.

This came three days after seven men allegedly gang-raped a 15-year-old girl in Guna. Also in Guna, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old man.

In the Khandwa case, the girl was visiting her relatives, who are farm workers and live in a hut in a field, for Diwali celebration. At a dhaba next to the field, a waiter, Raj Kumar, entertained her with mobile phone videos over the past few days there.

She was reported missing on Monday morning after her relatives had already searched for her for some time.

Area police chief Vivek Singh deployed 200 personnel to find her. Drains and farm barns were searched with no success.

Police by then had zeroed down on the suspect, who was detained after tracing his mobile phone signal.  “The accused initially kept misleading us. He has named another person too. We are verifying the information,” said Vivek Singh, Superintendent of Police.