Crime against Girl Child- A Case Study on Rape and Murder

Abstract

Crime against ‘girl child’ has been a heinous situation worldwide. Sexual abuse and physical violence cases in India have taken lives of many such innocent children, predominantly the girls. This article covers a case study on a six year old girl who was found raped and murder near the lane of her own residence. A day before the incident occurred, the victim’s father including other family members filed a missing complaint in the local police station. The next day, her body was found in a plastic rack close by in the slum dwelling. The victim was covered in blood and her face was brutally smashed. She was found half naked. The rack was dumped on the roadside and it smelled heavily of kerosene oil. On opening it, decaying vegetables, strewn debris, grain straw as well as the victim's body were found. Later all the evidences were sent to the forensic science laboratory for investigation. These trace evidence examination and post-mortem reports revealed, the victim was raped and then murdered. The police investigating officers could seize the culprit based on all the forensic reports that included serological testing and DNA analysis. The postmortem examination also confirmed the injuries found on the victim’s body were from force asserted during the sexual assault. The details of the entire case have been discussed in the paper.