11-year-old girl raped, murdered in Surat; two men arrested
Deccan ChronicleSurat, Mar 26 An 11-year-old girl, who went missing a week ago, was raped and later murdered in Surat district of Gujarat, police said on Tuesday. The victim went missing from her house on March 18 after which the police filed an FIR under Indian Penal Code section 363 on a complaint and formed multiple teams to locate her, Superintendent of Police Hitesh Joysar said. "To solve the crime, more than 15 police teams were formed which surveyed over 600 houses and nabbed two suspects who later confessed to having committed the crime," he said. The accused -- Deepak Kori, who hails from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, and Anuj Paswan, a resident of Palamu in Jharkhand -- were booked under IPC sections related to murder, rape destruction of evidence, and also provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, he said.