Nine-year-old girl's body dumped in canal after rape in India

In an extremely shocking incident, a nine-year-old girl was raped and killed by her landlord in India's capital New Delhi.

The landlord named Sanjeev Rana threw her body in a canal, according to Indian media reports.

The girl lived with her parents and two brothers in a rented house and on the afternoon of Dec 12, the girl went missing. At around 8:30 PM, a police complaint was filed at the Sawroop Nagar Police Station after which an FIR was filed under IPC Section 363 (Punishment for Kidnapping) and investigation was taken up.

On reaching the landlord’s house, the police were informed that he had met with an accident, was admitted in the ICU and was ‘unfit for statement at the time’.

On December 17, when the accused was in the state to make a statement, he revealed that he had first raped the minor girl and then killed her.

Since December 17, five divers have been deployed to search for the girl’s body in the canal and a separate team has been formed to check the accused’s travel route on the day of the abduction, the police official said.