11-Year-Old Girl Raped And Murdered In Surat, 2 Arrested

More than 15 police teams were formed and over 600 houses surveyed to arrest the two suspects who later confessed to having committed the crime, police said.

An 11-year-old girl, who went missing a week ago, was raped and later murdered in Surat district of Gujarat, police said on Tuesday.

Two persons, originally hailing from Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, were arrested in connection with the gruesome crime, they said.

The victim went missing from her house on March 18 after which the police filed an FIR under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 363 (kidnapping) on a complaint and formed multiple teams to locate her, Superintendent of Police (Surat Rural) Hitesh Joysar said.