Gurugram: Man held for murder of 18-year-old girl

Gurugram, July 12

The Gurugram police have solved the mystery of the murder of an 18-year-old girl by arresting Santosh (26), a native of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. The girl’s body was found in the forest area near Bandhwari village on May 1.

A senior police officer said that the accused had murdered the girl as she wanted to marry the accused’s nephew. Santosh was produced in a city court that sent him to a three-day police remand.

Santosh worked in a private company in Gurugram. The team of Sikanderpur crime unit led by Sub-Inspector Rajesh Kumar arrested him on Friday after over a month-long investigation.

According to the police, there was a noose around the girl’s neck. The police took the body in custody and sent it to a mortuary.

The girl was later identified as Rimjhim (18), a resident of Surat Nagar in Gurugram. A reward of Rs 20,000 had been announced by the Gurugram police for the arrest of the accused and finally, police arrested the accused Santosh, who lives in Shivaji Nagar area.

Varun Dahiya, ACP crime said during interrogation the accused revealed that his nephew Ram and Rimjhim used to talk to each other. When the girl’s family came to know, they talked to Santosh about this. During a meeting, Santosh took the girl alone on the pretext of trying to convince her.

“On April 27, Rimjhim went to meet Santosh. Santosh kept her in his room for two days. On the third day he took her to Vrindavan on the pretext of meeting his nephew Ram,” said ACP Dahiya. When the girl came to know that he was luring her on the pretext of meeting her nephew, she threatened to complain to the police. The accused told the girl that his nephew was in Bandhwari farmhouse and he brought her to Bandhwari. He took the girl to the forest and killed her by hitting a brick on her head and strangling her with a scarf.