Bijnor: The Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested a man for strangling a 24-year-old national-level Kho Kho player to death, following a failed rape attempt. The woman's body was found at a railway station in Bijnor. The police arrested the accused with the help of an audio clip shared by a friend of the victim, who was on call when the incident took place.
According to the police, the incident took place at around 2pm on September 10 when the Dalit woman was returning home after giving a job interview. The accused Shahzad a.k.a Khadim, who worked as a labourer at the railway station, saw her and dragged her to the cement railway sleepers, and attempted to rape her.
When the woman, who was on a call with a friend, tried to shout for help, the accused strangled her with her dupatta and a rope. The woman's friend overheard her screaming for help on the phone before she fell silent.
The accused escaped from the place with the woman's mobile, leaving her on the same cement sleeper. Her bruised body was later found in a pool of blood. Her family alleged that she was raped.
The accused had switched off the phone after reaching home but tracing its last location, the police reached his residence and nabbed him on Tuesday evening. The police also recovered a slipper and two broken buttons of a shirt from the crime spot, which belonged to the accused. The accused's shirt had bloodstains, which were later washed by his wife, the police said.
