CCTV footage has emerged in the rape and murder case of a 12-year-old girl in West Bengal’s Dinajpur, showing the victim on a cycle with the accused hours before she went missing.
The footage, accessed by NDTV, showed the accused, wearing a pink shirt and black pants, riding the cycle, while the victim sat behind him.
On Sunday night, the police, acting on a tip-off that the accused was hiding in the Gouri gram panchayat region, raided the area. The footage, accessed by NDTV, showed the accused, wearing a pink shirt and black pants, riding the cycle, while the victim sat behind him. He then took her to a secluded spot on the pretext of showing her the Kulik River, where he allegedly raped the girl before killing her. The girl subsequently went missing. The cops fired in retaliation, injuring the accused. “We had been searching for the accused for the past four days. Acting on a tip-off, our team traced him in Parapukur near the Bengal-Bihar border.
The accused was an acquaintance of the victim, and she used to refer to him as ‘Jethu’ (uncle), according to officials. The accused allegedly opened fire at the police team conducting the raid, reportedly hitting the tyre of the police vehicle, according to officials. He opened fire at the police team, who retaliated in self-defence,” the senior police officer said.
