Blue room, broken wall: Clues from 10-year-old help nab rape accused

NEW DELHI: A brace of abandoned slippers and a spread successful a breached chromatic partition starring into a forested ridge helped constabulary ace the lawsuit of a 10-year-old girl’s intersexual battle successful cardinal Delhi’s Prasad Nagar.

The kid was allegedly abducted, raped and near unconscious successful the secluded country by an e-rickshaw driver.In the lack of a sanction oregon registration number, investigators said they relied wholly connected the ocular recognition of a reddish e-ricks-haw with a achromatic roof. TOI had earlier reported the incident, which took spot connected Jan 11, and the apprehension made connected Jan 14. Fresh details person since emerged astir the probe that led constabulary to the suspect.

The subsister has since been discharged pursuing aesculapian attraction and counselling.The probe began connected Jan 11, erstwhile the miss — who supports her household by selling flowers astatine postulation signals — was brought to a infirmary with injuries. She told constabulary she was lured by an e-rickshaw operator connected the pretext of being offered beverage and taken to a wood patch. Despite being disoriented, she recalled fragments of her surroundings—a “blue-painted room” and a “broken introduction point”—providing constabulary with their archetypal lead.

DCP (Central) Anant Mittal formed 3 teams to ace the case. They scanned a 20-sq-km radius, manually inspecting 22 locations with akin features and analysing CCTV footage.The breakthrough came erstwhile constabulary examined CCTV footage from Professor Ram Nath Vij Marg, which matched the details shared by the girl. On a deserted agelong of the ridge, officers recovered a breached chromatic partition starring to a tiny structure.

The betterment of the girl’s slippers confirmed the transgression scene, allowing forensic teams to reconstruct the way taken by the accused betwixt 11 p.m. and 1 am.“Alongside the crushed search, a 2nd squad scanned footage from implicit 100 CCTV cameras. A cardinal pb emerged erstwhile a camera recorded a reddish e-rickshaw with a achromatic extortion carrying the minor. Based connected this visual, a 3rd squad searched e-rickshaw stands successful Karol Bagh and Rajendra Place,” a elder serviceman said.Photographs of suspected drivers were circulated among investigators until the conveyance was traced adjacent a petrol pump successful Rajendra Place. Police aboriginal spotted a antheral matching the victim’s statement approaching the vehicle. He attempted to fly connected noticing the constabulary beingness but was chased down and apprehended.The suspect, identified arsenic Durgesh, 25, from Farrukhabad successful Uttar Pradesh, aboriginal led constabulary to the betterment of blood-stained clothes.