- विज्ञापन -
Pune: The Pune police on Thursday arrested a 54 year old man for allegedly kidnapping, rape and murder of two minor girls in the Rajgurunagar area of the city.
The accused did the crime on Wednesday when the two girls were playing outside their home around noon, but later suddenly ‘disappeared’.
The police have identified the accused as Ajay Das, who disappeared after doing the heinous double crime with the two siblings aged nine and eight before he absconded.
The family members, after failing to trace the siblings, in the evening lodged a complaint with the Khed Police Station.
Responding promptly, Police Inspector Prabhakar More formed teams to launch a system effort to trace the two missing sisters but did not get any clues.
Late in the night, around 10.30 p.m., the police and the family inspected the two siblings’ room on the upper floors of their building and made the shocking discovery.
The two girls’ bodies were found at Das’ home, in a huge drum filled with water, with their heads below and their feet up, pointing at murder by forcible drowning.
As the discovery created a sensation in the vicinity, the case was handed over to a woman Investigation Officer Snehal Raje, said the officials, while the victims’ bodies were sent to the Sassoon Hospital in Pune for autopsies.
Cracking the whip, the Khed Police launched a manhunt for Das and apprehended him from his hideout in a shady lodging house early in the day (December 26) as he was packing up and preparing to flee out of Maharashtra.
The preliminary investigation from the p;olice revealed that Das have confessed to the double crime and also admitted that he had to kill them to suppress the matter secretly and also prevent them from screaming or attracting attention.
