JAIPUR: A day after the body of a girl was found on the Jaipur-Beawar bypass near Ajmer, the police believe it to be a case of rape-cum-murder.The victim, identified as 22-year-old Ritu Agarwal, was a student of fashion designing and a native of Ahmedabad.
According to the police, she was a second-year student of fashion designing at Pearl Academy of Fashion Designing in RIICO industrial area in Jaipur. A resident of Raghukul Colony at Sahibag area in Ahmedabad, she was staying in a rented accommodation at Moti Doongri area of Jaipur for the past one-and-a-half years.
The girl had left her room on Saturday evening, telling her roommates that she was expecting some visitors from Ahmedabad and would return in few hours. “When she didn’t return, her maternal uncle Subhash Lohiya, a resident of Bani Park in Jaipur, was informed. He lodged a missing complaint with the police on Sunday morning,” said Narayan
Lal, incharge of Moti Doongri police station in Jaipur.
The doctors, who conducted the post-mortem, have confirmed rape and murder. Meanwhile, the victim’s family members told police about her closeness to a boy in Ahmedabad before she came to Jaipur for study. The police, however, have refused to divulge the identity of the boy.
| Source: IndiaTimes |
