Horrible and threatening news came from Delhi, where a 9-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and killed before being hurriedly cremated. The police charge sheet filed in the case says that the girl is being sexually assaulted in the past. Police arrested Radhe Shyam, 55, (the priest at a Delhi crematorium), and three other employees — Kuldeep Singh, 63, Laxmi Narayan, 48, and Salim Ahmed, 49 are under arrest in the ‘9-year-old’s rape-murder’ case.
The family alleged that the men raped the 9-year old girl and when she died, they hurriedly cremated the body, but the accused claimed that the girl died of electrocution while fetching water from a cooler. However, Police have relied on accused disclosure statements, CCTV footage and public witnesses to frame charges against the accused.
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Radhe Shyam told police that on August 2, he spotted the girl, who, he claimed, used to visit the crematorium to drink water and sometimes bathe, in the police charge sheet. The charge sheet also states that Shyam had in the past got her to give him massages, and also showed her pornographic content. As per the charge sheet, on the incident day, Radhe Shyam asked the girl for a massage, during which Kuldeep suggested that they sexually assault the child. It quotes Shyam as saying that he sent Salim away “to buy jalebi”, while he and Kuldeep took turns to rape the girl.
In their evidence filed against the accused, police have stated that the girl died due to suffocation while being sexually assaulted. Police submitted that the accused created fear in the mind of the child’s parents that her daughter’s organs will be removed during the postmortem. They also allegedly offered the child’s mother Rs 20,000 and offered to cremate the body for free, police submitted.
Even after her mother kept saying no, Narayan, Shyam, and Salim prepared the pyre. The charge sheet further states that Shyam took Kuldeep’s help to place the body on the pyre and set it on fire. Till the time locals intervened and pulled off the body, it was considered charred.
