A 65-year-old man was allegedly sexually assaulted a minor girl and killed in Pune's Bhor area. The police arrested an accused senior citizen in the following incident on Friday, May 1, according to the news agency PTI. The family demands the death penalty for the accused.
According to the police, the accused allegedly lured the child with the promise of food and took her to a shed in a cattle shed, where he sexually assaulted her and murdered her. When the notice was that the girl did not return home on time. Her relatives began looking for her.
During the search, CCTV footage from a private residence captured the accused with the child, said a police official. Hundreds of villages sit in protest demanding justice and stern action against the accused. Villages also blocked the Mumbai-Bengaluru Highway, resulting in heavy traffic jams.
Pune Rural Superintendent of Police Sandipsingh Gill assuaged the mob, assuring the public that a chargesheet in the case will be filed within 15 days, reported The Times of India.