Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), June 16: Lucknow Police have arrested three accused persons for attempted rape and murder of a girl. One of the accused is said to be the 'boyfriend' of the victim.
The incident occurred on June 13 when the friends of the victim's boyfriend tried to rape the girl but she resisted the attempt and tried to flee. However, the enraged friends chased the girl and killed her.
The accused boyfriend has been identified as Kaif, a resident of Sarojini Nagar and the other two accused have been identified as Vishal and Aakash. Police have arrested the three accused on Monday. The victim was reportedly a first-year BSc student.
According to the police, the accused Kaif called the victim for a date and he went to pick her from her house. At that time the girl's father was not at the house and the victim's mother has also gone to her mother's house in Sitapur.
DCP Central Soman Burman said that the date was planned to rape the girl. The accused has confessed this. When the accused called the victim for a date the two friends of the accused were also with him.
According to the plan, Kaif took Vishal's brother bike to pick up the girl. Before picking the girl, Kaif dropped his friends at a forest area of Gehru village. He then brought the girl to the same area. When Kaif reached the spot with his girlfriend, Akash and Vishal tried to rape the victim.
The victim opposed this and threatened to complain to the police about the incident. She somehow escaped and ran away from the spot. The accused and his friends chased the girl and caught her. Aakash pushed her to the ground and Vishal attacked her with the knife. She died on the spot, informed the police.
Police has found the knife which was used to kill the victim. The body has been sent for postmortem.