Truck driver rapes and kills 6-year-old girl in Telangana

In Telangana near Peddapalli, a minor girl was abducted and raped by a truck driver around 11 pm. Police arrested the accused and a case was filed against him.

The victim who lost her life was a 6-year-old child and her mother works in a rice mill. The gruesome incident took place in a rice mill in Katnapalli village in Sultanabad Mandal.

The child was sleeping with her mother in front of the rice mill on June 13. In this situation, the truck driver, who is also said to be working in another mill, took the child away from the sleeping mother. He carried the child into the bushes, abused her and then killed her.

The child’s mother, who woke up and found her daughter missing, alerted the neighbors. With the help of the owner, they witnessed the truck driver kidnapping the child on the factory’s video footage.

The CCTV footage showing the truck driver with the child went viral on social media. This sparked a lot of hatred on social media and in the Peddapalli area as the child became a victim of a heinous crime.

The victim’s mother told the media: “There was a power outage at around 10:30 p.m. So I slept with my two daughters in the open space in front of our accommodation. When I woke up in the middle of the night, we found that the child was missing. We asked the neighbors, but she was nowhere. When we informed the owner, he checked the video footage. We alerted the police.”

The boy’s body was found the next day around 6 am and was taken to Sultanabad Government Hospital for post-mortem. The accused was arrested from his workplace and then convicted of the crime. The truck driver was identified as Vinod from Bihar and a POCSO charge was filed against him.

Superintendent of Police M Srinivasulu said, “After receiving the information, we immediately sent a search party. Based on the information, we nabbed the accused, who came to work the next day as usual. The accused has confessed to the crime. He has been remanded in custody.”