Rajasthan: 14-Year-Old Girl Gang Raped, Burnt Alive In Coal Furnace

The Rajasthan Police have held three people in connection with an alleged gang rape and murder of a minor girl.

It comes after a burnt body of a 14-year-old girl was discovered in a coal furnace in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district. The victim was raped and dumped in the furnace in the district's Kotri town.

According to the reports, the girl went missing on Wednesday afternoon after she had gone to a field in her village to graze cattle. "We started looking for her in the afternoon when the cattle returned but my sister didn't return with them," Hindustan Times quoted the victim's brother as saying.

Hours after the search, the family members got their first clue when they found the human bones and bangles near one of the coal furnaces which was burning despite rains. Then they alerted the cops.

The three accused had confessed to the crime before the police arrived on the spot. "Police have also recovered the girl's bracelets and shoes. A forensic team has been probed considering the seriousness of the matter. A DNA test will also be conducted of the bone samples found at the furnace for further investigation," said Bhilawar police superintendent (SP) Adarsh Sindhu.

Kotri police station house officer (SHO) Khivraj Singh said that they are awaiting the forensics report for further investigation.

This is the fifth rape case in the last few days.

The first such case involved two sisters who were sexually assaulted and impregnated by two staffers of a farmhouse. The victims' family came to know about the incident after one of the two complained of abdominal pain.

In another incident, a 17-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by eight men in Rajasthan's Alwar on Sunday. A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped when she was home alone in Barmer district.

These incidents come to light when the BJP is cornering the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government over the crime against women in the state, which will go for polls towards the end of the year.