Bhopal: In a gruesome incident, a three-year-old girl was on Wednesday raped and then thrown into shrub by the side of a railway track here. A local, spotted the girl lying in the bush and crying in pain.
The person who found her said the child was gasping for breath and struggling to crawl. She also had several injury marks on her body. “I found the girl lying in the bush in an injured condition at around eight in the morning. I immediately called my wife and we took the girl to the nearby hospital in an auto rickshaw when the police did not show up”, Manoj Bagri told this newspaper here.
According to him, the child was writhing in pain and had lost a lot of blood. “It was a shocking sight as the girl stared at me resting her head on her fists while lying on the ground”, Manoj said.
Later, the state minister for women and child welfare Archana Chitnis and senior police officers rushed to the hospital to visit the victim. “It is a shameful incident. A medical exam has indicated rape,” Ms Chitnis said.
The minister said police officials have now launched a manhunt to nab the accused. She also announced that the delay on the part of the police to respond to the distress call would now be probed and erring police personnel would be taken to task.
