Surat: The Surat crime branch on Thursday filed a 546-page chargesheet in the case of sexual assault and murder of a 11-year-old girl, whose body was found in bushes in Pandesara area in April this year with 86 injury marks, several of them on her private parts. Body of the minor girl, a native of Rajasthan, was found from Pandesara police station limits on April 6. Postmortem report revealed that some blunt object was inserted into her her private causing serious injuries. Three days later body of the girl’s mother was found from around the same place where the minor girl’s body was dumped.The crime branch officials, investigating the case, will submit separate chargesheet in case of the girl’s murder later, sources said. After being clueless about the perpetrator of the heinous crime, Ahmedabad crime branch finally got a break through after it caught hold of CCTV footage after 15 days. Based on the information, cops arrested Harsahay Gujjar on April 21 and his cousin Hariom Gujjar a couple of days later. Both are currently lodged in Lajpore Central Jail. Harsahay had allegedly bought the mother-daughter duo for Rs 35,000 and brought them to Surat to work as bonded labourers in his marble fitting contracts business. He brutalized the girl and allegedly raped her, before killing her and dumping her body close to the same spot on April 5 night. It was further revealed that Harsahay, a pervert sex maniac, raped the girl’s mother woman several times in his house and later murdered her had disposed of the body near by.According to crime branch officials, the chargesheet includes statements of 146 witnesses, of which 10 are eyewitness. Police has also stated that statements of 10 witnesses were recorded under Section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in presence of a magistrate.Harsahay and Hariom were charged under various sections of the IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) for murder and sexual assault. Along with the chargesheet, police submitted various evidences like DNA comparison report, forensic reports, details on injuries marks on deceased girl’s body and private part. Besides the CCTV footages based on which the investigation was done, police also submitted other technical evidences.

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