Ghaziabad: Police have made no headway in the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl, three days after her body was found.Having checked over 100 CCTV cameras at railway stations and bus stands in Delhi-NCR, police are yet to arrest the girl’s maternal uncle. The autopsy report confirmed that the girl was brutally raped and later strangled by her uncle, a resident of Muzaffarnagar.On Saturday, the girl was found murdered under a parked car in the Teela Mor area. “The accused doesn’t use the phone and that’s why we don’t get his exact location. We learnt that the accused is addicted to marijuana and that’s why we checked more than 50 parks in the area,” Shalimar Garden ACP Atul Singh said, adding that police have formed five teams and conducted raids at several places in Delhi-NCR, Muzaffarnagar and other places.The ACP also said that police got some CCTV cameras in which he was walking with the body and, in another footage, he was standing near the car, along Bikaner 80-Foot Road where he dumped the girl. In one footage, he was seen running towards Delhi.A source in police said, during investigation, police learnt that for the last one year, the accused has not talked to his wife and children. His family stays in Muzaffarnagar.Police said they received a Dial 112 call around 8pm on Saturday about the child’s body lying under a white car. She was missing for more than eight hours by then. The body was sent for an autopsy and forensic teams collected evidence from the spot.Police said that the accused raped the girl at his rented room, which was taken by him one month ago near the victim’s house. The girl was the second of three siblings. Her parents work as daily wagers. According to the family, the child was taken from outside her home around noon, when only she and her grandfather were present. Her grandfather is blind.On Saturday afternoon, he came to the house while the girl was sitting outside eating ice cream and took her away, saying he would buy her more things. After the girl’s mother returned home and realised her daughter was missing, the family began searching for her in the neighbourhood. Hours later, the family was informed by police about the body. At the hospital, they identified her as their daughter.An FIR has been registered against the accused under Sections 103 (1) (punishment for murder), 238 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offenders) and 65 (2) (rape) of BNS and relevant sections of the POCSO Act at Teela Mod police station.
