August 16, 2024: Amid a nationwide outrage over a Kolkata’s trainee doctor’s rape and murder case, another horrific case of rape and murder came from Uttar Pradesh. As reports, a nurse was raped and killed while she was returning from a private hospital in Uttarakhand to her home near Uttar Pradesh border.

She left the hospital on the evening of July 30 and was seen taking an e-rickshaw from Indra Chowk in Rudrapur in CCTV footage but did not reach her rented accommodation on Kashipur Road in Uttar Pradesh’s Bilaspur where she stayed with her 11 year old daughter.

The next day, her sister filed a missing complaint. Eight days later on August 8, the Uttar Pradesh police found her body in an empty plot, nearly 1.5 km from her house in Dibdiba village.

The police sent the body for post-mortem and formed a police team to find the accused. They traced the victim’s stolen mobile phone which led them to the accused, Dharmendra. The accused, a daily labourer from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, was arrested from Rajasthan on Wednesday.

Senior Superintendent of Police, Manjunath TC said that accused Dharmendra saw the victim and followed her. When she was about to enter her building, he dragged her to the nearby bushes, raped and strangled her using her scarf.