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Rewa, MP: Police probing the April 24 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa, have found that her teenage brother sexually assaulted her after watching a pornographic video on mobile and then killed her, following which his mother and his two elder sisters helped in the cover-up, an official said.
The police cracked the case and detained the victim's 13-year-old brother, their mother and sisters aged 17 and 18 after interrogation of 50 people, intense questioning of the accused persons and on the basis of technical evidence.
Providing details of the case, ASP (rural) Vivek Kumar Lal informed that the police unearthed this rape and murder case following intense scrutiny and scientific method.
The 3-month long investigation including DNA match of victim with accused led to nab the culprit. Though all the four accused including mother and 2 sisters tried to mislead police investigation, they broke down and revealed the truth finally. After a DNA match was confirmed, the police interrogated them individually. The juvenile accused admitted to crime of rape and murder of his sister while mother helped him in cover-up.
The mother of a Juvenile, who is also accused in the case together with other 2 daughters, helped the accused in cover-up of a brutal and inhumane case. Because the accused (a juvenile) was the only son among 3 sisters in a family, the mother wanted to protect the child. The father who works as a laborer in another state (out of MP) was not present at the time of incident.
When the victim threatened to tell this to their father, the boy stranguled her and later woke up his mother and confided in his mother. She then found that the victim was still alive. On seeing that, the accused again strangled her.
In the meantime, his two elder sisters also woke up and all of them changed the spot of their bed before informing the police to mislead the probe. However, they finally admitted to their crime after being repeatedly interrogated, he said.
Further legal steps are being taken after detaining the boy, his two sisters and their mother, the official said.
In order to mislead the investigators, the family members had told the police that the girl died after being bitten by a poisonous insect.
The probe revealed that there was no sign of anybody entering the house, and family members also denied hearing any sound during the night.