Another girl raped, murdered in Delhi

Just days after the horrifying gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student which was followed by a series of protests by Indian civil society, another young woman was raped and murdered in New Delhi, Indian media reported on Sunday. A 21-year-old woman, who had been missing since Friday night, was found stripped and dead near her house in Noida on Saturday. The police have registered a case of rape and murder against two persons in connection with the incident.
The victim, a resident of Chotpur colony, left her office at around 9 pm and headed home with four of her female colleagues, according to police. After reaching outside her colony, her colleagues went their separate ways while she proceeded towards her house. “Yesterday around 9 in the evening, she left on a scooty after her shift along with other girls. Others got off and she went ahead alone,” said the father of the victim. When she did not return till 10 pm, worried family members began a frantic search and also approached the cops. They allege the police did not take the matter seriously and refused to lodge a missing person complaint.
Her body was finally found on Saturday morning, without clothes and with injury marks, on the roadside near Pushta area. “In the morning we found a dead body of a woman in a remote area of Noida Sector 58. We investigated and after all the forensic tests we discovered her identity from neighbouring areas. We registered an official complaint after that under sections 302, 376, 201. Since the FIR mentioned suspected rape hence we have applied these charges. After the post mortem we are conducting further investigations. We have found two suspects in this case who are under our arrest and we are questioning them. Whoever is found responsible in this case will not be spared,” said Noida Senior Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar