Convicted Rapist, Freed after 10 Years in Jail, Rapes and Kills 12-Year-Old Girl

In a horrifying incident that proves the need for harsher punishment in sexual assault cases, a man raped and killed a 12-year-old girl, two years after he was released from jail. He had earlier been convicted of rape and imprisoned for 10 years.

The accused, Pappu Gupta, was arrested on Tuesday, three days after the crime. According to the complaint filed at Jaitpura police station in Varanasi district, the victim had gone to the market to get paan for her mother. When she didn't return after an hour, the victim's mother and other relatives began searching for her and reported her missing to the police. The victim's mother told the police that the accused was at her shop when she sent her daughter to the market and that he had left as soon as her daughter left.

According to the police, the accused followed the victim from her mother's shop and offered her a ride on his scooter. He convinced her to go on a longer ride with him and when she agreed, Pappu found a secluded spot where he raped and killed her.





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Even though the police questioned Pappu on the same day that the complaint was lodged, he denied any involvement. The 12-year-old girl, whom he later admitted to raping and murdering, was found dead on the roadside the next day.

Quoting the SHO of Jaitpura police station, a report in The Indian Express says, “The girl’s throat had been slit and the body had been dumped in the bushes along the road in Shivrampur village.”



The police brought in Pappu again and questioned him in more detail about his whereabouts on the day of the crime. “After the body was recovered, the police collected call details record of Pappu Gupta to ascertain if his cellphone location was in Kerakat area on the evening of November 26. A police team later went through the CCTV footage from petrol pumps along the Varanasi-Jaunpur Road and found Pappu was on his scooter in a queue at a petrol pump in Kerakat area,” the SSP of Varanasi, Nitin Tiwari said.

During his interrogation, Pappu confessed to the crime and revealed why he killed the girl. “He said he murdered the girl after raping her as the victim in the previous incident had given a statement against him in the court and he was jailed for 10 years,” the SSP said. In his confession, the accused said that after strangulating her, he slit the victim's throat to make sure she was dead.





H/T: The Indian Express