Tragic end to Devika’s search operation Body found in ditch
   Date :27-Feb-2020

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Staff Reporter :
 
Sensation prevailed in Tilwara area when body of 22-month-old missing girl Devika was found in a ditch filled with water behind the residence of Sudarshan Valmik (appellant) in Bhairo Nagar. The body was found 41 days after the girl was reported missing. The news spread throughout the area and people in large numbers gathered at the spot. Senior police officers along with FSL teams reached the spot and started investigations into the case. Police sent the body for post-mortem after panchnama to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College and Hospital.
 
SHO of Tilwara Rina Pandey informed that police received information about finding Devika’s body. On receiving the information, senior police officers were informed and a police team reached the spot. Taking a serious note into the case, senior officers reached the spot and started investigations. Police are waiting for post-mortem report to ascertain the exact cause of death. SHO Pandey informed that in prima facie of investigations police could not find any physical evidence but separate teams are investigating the case under the direction of senior officers.
 
Police took statements of parents, family members, relatives and locals to identify and apprehend the accused involved in this brutal crime. Devika’s parents had lodged a complaint at Tilwara police station that an unidentified person had abducted their 22-month-old daughter Devika from the house when they were sleeping in the intervening night of January 16 and 17. Investigation teams were puzzled amidst contradictory information in statements of family members and other residents in the case of abduction of 22-month-old girl.
 
When Devika went missing... On January 17, a man named Sudarshan Valmik (39), a resident of Bhairo Nagar, had filed a complaint that late in the night on January 16, he along with other family members took dinner and went to sleep. At around 2 am, his daughter Devika (22-month-old) woke up and started crying when his wife managed to put her back to sleep. On Friday morning, he and his wife woke up in the morning and found that their daughter was missing. They started looking everywhere in the house and found that a wall of the house was damaged. They became suspicious and believe that an unidentified person had entered the house by breaking the wall and abducted their daughter.