'Picked Her For Fun': 5-Year-Old Abducted, Gang-Raped, Thrown From 3rd Floor To Stage Accident In UP, Dies

In a shocking incident, a five-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from outside her home, gang-raped, strangled, and then thrown from a third-floor building to "make it look like" an accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on Friday evening. The child was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead.

Police said the two accused, both factory labourers in their late 20s, were drinking together when they allegedly plotted the crime. The men preyed on the child after stepping out while drinking and abducted her moments later.

SSP (Bulandshahr) Dinesh Kumar Singh said post-mortem findings confirmed “sexual assault and death due to strangulation along with multiple injuries all over the child’s body”.

A senior officer told TOI the accused were intoxicated when they planned the assault. “They confessed that one of them suggested that several young girls live in their area and they could ‘pick any one of them for fun’. They stepped outside, saw the child, and abducted her,” the officer said.

After committing the crime, the accused allegedly attempted to divert suspicion by throwing the girl from the third floor to make it appear as though she had fallen accidentally. However, their plan was exposed when a friend of the girl’s father reportedly saw the child with the two men shortly before the incident.

The child’s mother later discovered her daughter’s slippers inside the rented room occupied by the accused. When she confronted them, both men fled the spot. Soon after, the girl was found lying unconscious behind the building. She was rushed to the nearest hospital, where doctors declared her dead.

“Three police teams were formed and the two men hiding in a small under-construction colony were surrounded. They sustained bullet injuries to their legs in the brief encounter and were arrested, and sent to jail. We’ll ensure a speedy trial in this case,” said the SSP.

An FIR has been registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 70 (2) for gang-rape and 103 (1) for murder, along with Sections 5M and 6 of the POCSO Act, based on a complaint filed by the victim’s father.

Speaking to TOI, the grieving father said his family had been living on rent in the building for the past eight months and knew the accused. “They were known to us, and we never thought they would do this to a five-year-old... They cannot be humans; they’re demons, and deserve the most stringent punishment,” he said.