Hyderabad: A week after a 14-year-old mentally ill girl was kidnapped and raped by two people, police arrested the suspects at Mughalpura. The duo, D. Ajay Kumar and G. Karan, allegedly lured the girl to their room and raped her. The girl was going home when the duo found her. Police said the suspects are petty offenders. The minor girl has identified the suspects, and they have confessed committing the crime, police said. The duo, who work as cleaners, saw the girl when she was walking along the road.
“On February 10 the girl was walking home. The suspects called her, made her sit on their bike and took her to a room in the Lalitha Bagh area, where they raped her one after the other,” said an official from the Moghalpura police station. Both Ajay Kumar and Karan are from the same neighbourhood, where the girl lives with her parents. They were waiting for a chance to sexually assault her. As the girl was mentally ill they thought that can get away, and no one would come to know about it.
On February 10, the girl’s parents approached the police and filed a complaint saying that she was missing. Next day the girl came back to her house and said that she was kidnapped and raped by two people. Police booked a case and started an investigation. “The duo went absconding after we booked the case. Later, we traced and identified them with the help of the victim,” said inspector R. Devender. Police booked a case against them under Section 376 (rape) and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso).
