Accused In Minor Girl's Rape, Murder Found Dead On Rail Track; Suspected Suicide: Police
A man wanted in the case of the rape and murder of a six-year old girl was found dead on a railway track in Jangaon district on Thursday.
Telangana Director General of Police M Mahendar Reddy confirmed that the accused was identified after the verification of identification marks on his body. This comes amid a massive manhunt launched to nab him.
Absconding since neighbours found girl's body
The suspect, Pallakonda Raju (30), has been absconding since the night neighbours found the six-year-old girlĄŻs body wrapped in a bedsheet in his house. Telangana police have been looking for him for the last five days and have even offered Rs 10 lakh reward for information leading to his arrest, amid protests by the opposition demanding speedy justice and an encounter threat by the state Labour Minister Malla Reddy.
Minister's encounter threat
Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy had told reporters on Tuesday that the suspect should be killed in an encounter as he didnĄŻt deserve to live. Incidentally, in Hyderabad, a Supreme Court-appointed inquiry commission is currently looking into the circumstances that led to the death of four suspects in the rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian on the outskirts of Hyderabad on December 6, 2019.
Manhunt to nab accused
In their efforts to trace the suspect, Hyderabad police Wednesday released multiple photographs of the suspects with possible disguises he could have adopted to evade police. Ą°Not withstanding possibilities of perpetrator causing change in his attributes such as Hairstyle, beard etcĄCertain computer-generated most probable disguised images of the accused are being shared,Ąą police tweeted.
A senior police official from Janagaon said the body with head injuries was found on the track in Station Ghanpur and the police reached the spot after some locals noticed a body on the track at around 9:45 am.
Suicide suspected??
The police suspect that the accused must have committed suicide by jumping before a running train, the official said.The girl was raped and murdered allegedly by a man in a neighbouring house at Saidabad in Hyderabad on the evening of September 9.
The incident triggered protests by residents of the locality who had raised slogans and demanded justice and quick arrest of the culprit.
