Raipur: A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly raping and killing an eight-year-old lady in Raipur, a police officer mentioned on Thursday. The boy lives in the identical constructing the place the minor lady was staying.

Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prashant Agarwal mentioned, ‘A missing complaint on the eight-year-old girl was received on December 7 evening. Acting on the complaint, the police registered a case and started searching for the girl’. ‘Five days later, the minor girl was found dead at a deserted place just behind the colony where she was living. During the subsequent investigation, the police arrested the accused, also a minor, who lives in the same building where the girl was residing’, Agrawal mentioned. He mentioned the accused raped the lady and strangled her to dying, including that additional probe was underway.

Meanwhile, BJP supporters staged a protest within the state capital on Thursday, blaming the federal government and the police for the incident. Senior BJP chief Sanjay Shrivastava mentioned, ‘What was the fault of that 8-year-old girl and her family that she had to lose her life? The government and the police administration are responsible for this incident’.

He added, ‘The entire state has turned into a den of crime. No one is safe in Chhattisgarh today. There is no crime which is not happening in the state today. It took the rape and murder of a minor girl for the police administration to wake up. The police are involvd in illegal actvities in the state and the proceeds are going to the administration’. ‘The state of Chhattisgarh was conceived by (former Prime Minister) Atal Bihari Vajpayee. But today, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has turned our state into a den of crime.The state Home minister is sleeping. Has he even raised a question on why such incidents are taking place?’ Shrivastava additional mentioned.