The police on Wednesday released the photograph of the alleged rapist of a six-year-old child in a Hapur village and also announced a reward of ₹50,00 for his arrest. “The accused has been identified as Rohtas alias Dalpat. The survivor and witnesses have recognised him,” Sarvesh Mishra, Additional Superintendent of Police, Hapur, told The Hindu .
The girl was abducted from her village in Garh area on August 6 by a bike-borne man and was found by a farmer near a sugarcane field in the early hours of August 7.
The police took her to a local hospital from where she was referred to Meerut Medical College where the doctors confirmed that she was brutally raped. After a surgery, the girl is said to be stable.
Mr. Mishra said they could identify the culprit through the motorcycle he had borrowed from his brother-in-law.
