Korba, March 2: A teenage girl student was raped and killed in India disturbed state man in Chhattisgarh. The Class 12 student was raped and killed by a 23-year-old man in Surajpur district of the sate and the latter tried to pass it off as a case of suicide, police said. The police arrested the man, identified as Sabir Ali alias Baba Khan, who allegedly strangled the victim to death and then hanged the body from a ceiling fan at her house in Bhatgaon police station limits, Surajpur Additional Superintendent of Police Harish Rathore said.
As per preliminary investigation, the victim, a Class 12 student, appeared for her practical exam and then returned home in Surajpur, located around 300 km from the state capital Raipur.
Her mother was in Bilaspur to take care of her ailing father, who was admitted in a hospital there, while her younger brother had gone out of home to play, the official said.
“On finding the victim alone in the house, the accused went there. He allegedly raped her and then strangled her to death with her scarf. The man then hanged the body from a ceiling fan and wrote a note on her hand with a pen to make it appear as a case of suicide,” the official said.
Later, the victim’s brother and neighbours found her hanging and informed the police, he said.
A large number of people gathered in Jarhi area of Surajpur to pay tributes to the victim and demanded death sentence for the accused.