Karauli girl was shot dead by lover; cops arrest him, his father

JAIPUR: A 20-year-old man and his father were arrested on Saturday for the murder of the Dalit girl whose body with a gunshot injury was recovered from a village well in Karauli district on Thursday.
The accused, Golu Meena, also a Dalit and resident of the girl’s village, was arrested on murder charges while his father, Amar Singh, was held on charges of harbouring a criminal and involvement in the conspiracy, said police. Whether the 20-year-old girl was gang-raped would be ascertained through FSL tests and other reports, said police.
Golu Meena was in a relationship with the victim. When her parents fixed her marriage with another man, she started pressuring him to elope together, thus prompting him to eliminate her, said police after his interrogation.
“Golu has claimed that his relationship with the victim was not very serious and that the girl’s parents had fixed her marriage somewhere else. He said the girl was pressuring him to elope with her. He admitted that he therefore wanted to get rid of her. But all these will have to be corroborated with evidence,” said Karauli SP Mamta Gupta to TOI.
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On July 12, Golu Meena had told the girl that he was ready to elope with her. “She agreed and sat on his bike. The accused took her to an isolated location on a property belonging to his father and shot her dead. After killing her, the accused took the body to a well and dumped it in to give it the shape of a suicide. In the interrogation, the accused claimed he wanted to get rid of her,” added the SP.
Police ruled out the girl’s abduction as she and the accused had been talking to each other for a long time.
“As far as rape or gang-rape is concerned, we will wait for the FSL and other relevant reports to ascertain that. Also, it will be known from FSL and other reports if the girl was burnt with acid,” said Gupta.
Golu’s father Amar Singh was arrested for helping him flee after the murder. Police are trying to ascertain how Golu got the gun with which he shot the girl dead, said the SP.
In an important development later in the day, assistant sub-inspector Prem Chand and head constable Shiv Lal of Balghat police station were sent to lines by the Karauli SP. Soon thereafter, the family accepted the girl’s body and her cremation was conducted in the presence of police.
BJP MP Kirori Lal Meena said the main accused in the case has been arrested and that the administration has principally agreed to give a contractual job to a person from the victim’s family. “Whether or not the government provides suitable ex gratia to the victim’s family, I am giving Rs 20 lakh to the family. The dharna would hopefully end soon,” he said.
Courtesy : TOI
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