Minor Hindu girl raped and murdered; after she refused to marry [Rajasthan, India]

[Reported as seen]

Arshad Khan, 24 year old and his accomplices raped and murdered a 17-year-old Hindu girl in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Arshad Khan has a criminal background, does drugs openly, roams around with a revolver on him, is abusive as per his own social media uploads, and is from Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh. He met the victim over Instagram, and that is where the Jihadi lured the vulnerable minor girl.

Khan had a habit of threatening the minor that he would commit suicide whenever his demands were not met.
On March 22, between 3 and 4 pm, the Jihadi forced her to come and meet him in secrecy. The victim left her phone at home that is how her parents came to know what has been going on. As per police investigation, Khan asked the girl to marry him when they met, and she again refused. The accused then gang-raped the minor with three of his accomplices and slit her throat afterwards.

The minor was a resident of Ras village, in Pali district and used to teach tuition to small children. When the girl did not reach home, her family searched for her. Her body was found about 20 km from her home, near Dhuwariya village, Ajmer district, in the jungles around 100 meters from the highway.

Khan was lurking in the area and had allegedly hurt himself as well, but ran away when confronted. Police caught him and his fellow offenders from Ajmer railway station and confiscated their car.
The family members and other locals sat on dharna demanding strict punishment for the accused. SDM, Rural ASP Vikas Sangwan reached the spot, and Ajmer SP Vikas Sharma added that Khan was present at the spot of the murder and that he had a few self-inflicted injuries. A heavy police force was deployed in the region to maintain law and order.

The body was moved to JLN Hospital, Ajmer mortuary and preliminary information revealed that the girl was raped and murdered. Different sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with rape and murder charges have been levelled against the accused.
The names of the accomplices are yet to be revealed.

On social media, Khan had nicknamed himself the ‘Mental Boy.’ He is seen clutching his revolver and in some videos, he is seen blowing drugs into the camera. Another showed him dousing himself in some liquid and using some graphic effects to create the illusion that he was on fire. One shows Khan pulling the young girl by her hand.