Couple Arrested for Minor’s Rape, Murder; Sent to Police Custody
Deccan ChronicleMumbai: A couple arrested for rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Kalyan, Maharashtra was on Thursday remanded to the seven-days police custody. The wife, who works in a bank, told the police that she helped her husband to clean blood stains and dispose of the body because she feared that he would kill her too. Gawli, a habitual criminal with two molestation and one rape case against him, kidnapped the victim on Monday at around 4.30pm from her neighbourghood, took her to his house and raped her before killing her and dumped her body at an isolated location near Bapgaon in Bhiwandi with the help of his wife. The police have also arrested the rickshaw driver Gawli was nabbed from Buldhana based on the information provided by his 25-year-old wife Sakshi and his mobile phone location.