A chilling CCTV video has emerged on social media, showing the accused Deepak Verma abducting a 2.5-year-old girl from Lucknow metro station, where she was sleeping next to her parents.
The short 12-second clip captures Verma running toward a lift with the victim in his arms. Reportedly, the accused brutally raped the girl and left her in the lift to die. The victim was later found in a critical condition and rushed to a nearby hospital, where she is currently under medical observation. As per Alambagh’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, they swiftly launched a probe, scanning CCTV cameras and identifying the accused through the number plate of his vehicle. Reportedly, after intense efforts to trace and apprehend Verma, he was killed in a police encounter earlier today, June 6.
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