5-yr-old raped, murdered in Delhi’s Bawana — ‘throat slit, head bludgeoned, body dumped in factory’

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New Delhi: The prime accused in the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in outer Delhis Bawana knew the minors family from earlier and had no prior criminal record, ThePrint has learnt.The five-year-old was allegedly raped, her throat slit and head bludgeoned with a brick, body dumped in a factory, in outer Delhis Bawana area...

Police sources said the 28-year-old accused, Totan Lohar alias Khudi, lured the girl, then allegedly raped her and killed her..

He slit her throat with a blade and hit her head with a brick, a senior police officer told ThePrint, adding that police suspect it was Lohar who dumped her body in a factory around 7:30 pm Monday from where it was later recovered...

It is also learnt that the accused had known the victims family, who ran a tea stall, for as many as three years.He would come to their tea stall daily, said the officer quoted earlier, adding that Lohar works in a plastic factory and had no prior criminal record...

It was after this that one police team was deployed at the New Delhi railway station and another was dispatched to Kolkata, waiting for the train which the police suspected the accused boarded in Delhi...

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