Manas Dasgupta
NEW DELHI, Aug 15: While the gruesome rape and murder of a trainee postgraduate doctor in Kolkata has sparked off political slugfest leading to a demand from the BJP for the resignation of the Mamata Banerjee government, almost a similar incident in the BJP-ruled Uttarakhand has gone unnoticed so far.
Amid the furore across the country over the brutal rape and murder of trainee doctor in Kolkata, Uttarakhand police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the alleged rape and murder of a 33-year-old nurse who went missing on July 30 in Rudrapur of Udham Singh Nagar district.
The deceased was a resident of Gadarpur’s Islamnagar and worked as a nurse at a private hospital in Nainital. She lived with her 11-year-old daughter in Bilaspur Colony. The victim’s sister had filed a missing person’s report on July 31 at Rudrapur police station after which police began a probe into the case. Over a week later, her body was found in an empty plot in Uttar Pradesh’s Dibdiba area. The body was sent for post-mortem.
The accused, who was arrested from Rajasthan’s Jodhpur, is a labourer from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly. According to reports, the accused Dharmendra took the nurse to the bushes where he first raped her, then strangled her to death and fled after robbing her jewellery.
The victim’s sister had filed a missing person’s report on July 31 at Rudrapur police station after which police began a probe into the case. Over a week later, her body was found in an empty plot in Uttar Pradesh’s Dibdiba area. The body was sent for post-mortem.
Police scoured the CCTV camera footage which showed the last known whereabouts of the victim travelling in a tempo from Indra Chowk in Rudrapur. Police traced the location of the victim’s stolen mobile phone which led them to Dharmendra.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that he attacked the nurse on the way inside the Basundhara Apartment at Kashipur Road with the intention of robbery. He then took her to a vacant plot, raped her and strangled her to death. After killing her, the accused fled with the money and jewellery kept in her purse.
