Jind rape-murder: Police look out for missing Jhansa youth

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, January 15

The district police have expedited efforts to trace the Balmiki youth, a student of Class XII, who went missing under mysterious circumstances from Jhansa village on January 9.

Parents of the 15-year-old Dalit girl, whose brutalised body was recovered more than 100 km away at a village in Jind on Friday night, lodged a police complaint on January 9. However, no one approached the police about the missing youth.

Family sources said the victim and the youth knew each other and used to go for tuition at the same village together. However, they did not reach for tuition classes on the evening of January 9.

Police sources said the members of the youth’s family left the village after a few days for reasons not known. Investigating teams had been searching the family, said a police source.

SP Abhishek Garg said efforts were on to trace the youth for vital information in the case. He confirmed that no arrest was made, but several persons had been rounded up for questioning.

Meanwhile, Haryana Women Commission member Namrata Gaur, who met the aggrieved family members in Jhansa, told mediapersons that there was an apprehension that the girl and another youth were abducted by unidentified persons and subjected to abuse.

She said the victim and the youth had an affair and both families tried to counsel them a few days ago. On January 9, they left their respective homes without informing the families, said Gaur.

“The commission is closely monitoring the case and we have assured the aggrieved family of every assistance in the case. Both left their homes together. It is a matter of police investigation how the brutally mutilated body of the girl has been found while the youth is yet to be traced,” she said.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson of the Jind police stated that sections covering rape and under the POCSO Act had been added after investigation.