Hapur rape: Police arrests man accused of raping 6-year-old girl

The girl was kidnapped by a bike-borne assailant on Thursday (August 6) evening when she was playing outside her house in Garhmukteshwar Kotwali area of Hapur. 

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Hapur rape: Police arrests man accused of raping 6-year-old girl
The arrest comes more than a week after the minor girl was kidnapped and brutally raped. (Photo: Representational image)

Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday arrested the man accused of kidnapping and brutally raping a six-year-old girl in western Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur.

The arrest comes more than a week after the minor girl was kidnapped and raped. The state police team that has nabbed the accused is expected to share more details in a press conference later in the day.

The girl was kidnapped by a bike-borne assailant on Thursday (August 6) evening when she was playing outside her house in Garhmukteshwar Kotwali area of Hapur. She was found in a critical condition after the accused left her to die in a field.

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The kidnapper brutally raped the minor girl, mutilated her private parts, dumped her in a field near the village and escaped from the spot.

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After the girl could not be found for a long time, her family members and villagers tried looking for her. A police team was formed to search for the victim who tried to find her till 6 in the morning.

The family and villagers intensified the search at dawn and after some time the family members were informed that the girl was lying in the field in an unconscious state.

On the morning of August 7, the girl was finally found after she had been missing for 12 hours. She was lying unconscious and in a bloody condition in the field.

Soon after, hundreds of enraged villagers gathered and started looking for the accused in the fields.

The girl's family and police rushed her to the government hospital in Hapur in a critical condition.

She was later referred to medical college in Meerut since she required surgeries. Doctors at the Meerut hospital confirmed that the six-year-old had been raped and her private parts were damaged.

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