Agra: Three days after a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Etah district, on Saturday police claimed to identify two accused and apprehend one of them.Identified as Saurab (19) and Kamal (18), residents of Nagla Baldev, the two are distant relatives of the girl, who was killed just 200 meters away from her inter-college, where she took admission last week for class XI.According to police, the main accused Saurab is still absconding while Kamal was nabbed from Murli trisection on Friday night while he tried to escape.“During interrogation Kamal spilled the beans and informed us that he and the victim knew each other for a long time. Saurab was inclined towards her but after taking admission in the new inter-college, the girl started avoiding him as she wanted to focus on her studies. But Saurab believed that the victim was in a relationship with another youth. On Wednesday morning, the duo came on a motor-bike and waylaid the victim. They dragged her in nearby shrubs of dry canal, strangulated her with her stole (uniform). Believing her to be unconscious, the two raped her but the victim was already dead,” said circle officer of Aliganj, Ajay Bhadoria who lead the investigation team.Further speaking to TOI, Bhadoria said, “Saurab has switched off his phone in order to doge our surveillance team, who is trying to trace him down. Soon we will arrest him.”On July 18 morning the victim’s body was found along with her bicycle and school bag near Devtara village, which is three kilometre away from victim’s village Gaisingpur.The two accused were booked under IPC section 302 ( murder ), 376 (rape) and POCSO act.

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