Minor raped before murder at Odisha’s Nayagarh, next such Episode in district at a year

BHUBANESWAR: A day later having a 22-year-old childhood on charges of murdering a 6-year-old woman in a village at Nayagarh district, the authorities on Thursday said that she had been raped prior to her murder.
The accused Sagar Dalai was made in Nayagarh courtroom Thursday and sent to judicial custody after rejection of the bail .
The episode came almost a year following the rape and murder of 5-year-old woman in Nayagarh area in July this past year.
The offence had triggered by enormous public outrage on the Terrible investigation by police.
While the authorities had ordered an SIT invasion, the prior Nayagarh SP Pratyush Diwakar was moved involving the furore.
In the most recent instance, the little woman had gone missing on June 12.
Her parents lodged a complaint using the Banigochha authorities the identical moment.
The authorities found her body close to the village on Wednesday (June 16).
“According to the preliminary identification and questioning of their villagers, we zeroed in to a childhood, that jumped to the victim’s village.
The village contains just 10 homes.
During interrogation he confessed to raping and murdering the kid.
The reason for the murder has been sexual attack,” Nayagarh SP, Siddharth Kataria stated.
Police stated Dalai, who was working at a brick kiln at Tamil Nadu prior to returning into the village at the recent years, had abducted the child about the pretext of giving chocolate.
He raped her and strangulated her to death.
The authorities pointed out the needle of feeling on Dalai because he was seen by a few villagers playing children and showing them pictures on his cell phone.
He and his brother would be the only two men, who’d smartphones in town.
“We suspected that his actions because he’d tricked the villagers by stating that the woman went into a local temple and could come back by her.
He had counseled that the kid’s parents to perform a puja,” another police officer said.
(The victim’s identity has not been shown to shield her privacy according to Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)