INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A six-year-old girl in Odisha who had gone to buy biscuits was raped, strangled and left inside a school campus in a village in Cuttack
The girl has multiple injuries and is admitted in a hospital
Her condition is said to be critical
A 25-year-old man was arrested on Sunday.Police said the girl had gone to buy biscuits on Saturday
As her family waited for her to return home, there as a power cut in the village
With no sign of the girl, her worried family members and a group of villagers set out to look for her."After a frantic search for over an
hour the girl was traced lying unconscious and without clothes in the school campus with blood oozing from her head and mouth," the police
The alleged rapist had left her in that state presuming she was dead, police said.The six-year-old was immediately taken to a private
nursing home nearby and later moved to Cuttack's SCB Medical College and Hospital
Doctors said she has deep injuries on her head, face, neck, chest and private parts.The alleged rapist lives in the girl's village of
Jagannathpur and has been charged for rape and attempt to murder
"A case was registered on the basis of a written complaint filed by the girl"s grandfather," police inspector DK Mallick said.Odisha health
minister Pratap Jena, who visited the girl in the hospital, said a team of at least 13 doctors from several departments are treating her.Two
other rapes were reported in Odisha over the weekend when the the centre cleared an emergency executive order to introduce death penalty for
those found raping minors.A four-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a minor, her neighbor, in a village in Odisha's Kendrapara district
Sexual assault was confirmed after medical examination of both the girl and the boy.In another case, a 30-year-old man was arrested for
allegedly kidnapping and raping a Class 6 student was two days in Odisha's Kalahandi district
The man later abandoned the girl on the roadside on Thursday evening.The girl narrated the ordeal to her family members after which a
complaint was filed.(With inputs from PTI and IANS)
