The girl’s family members and other protestors placed her body on the ground in the Navale Bridge area, demanding strict punishment for the accused.
Traffic on the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway in Maharashtra’s Pune was severely disrupted on Saturday as hundreds of people blocked the route in protest of the rape and murder of a 3.5-year-old girl in Bhor taluka’s Nasrapur village.
Police arrested a 65-year-old man for sexually assaulting and killing the girl in a cow shed in the village.
The girl’s family members and other protestors placed her body on the ground in the Navale Bridge area, demanding strict punishment for the accused.
Though it was a peaceful sit-in, the situation escalated when demonstrators tried to block the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway, triggering massive traffic jams. Several purported visuals on social media showed huge queues of vehicles on the highway.
Pune traffic police had also issued an advisory, asking motorists to avoid the Wadgaon Bridge stretch and use alternate routes until traffic movement was restored.Shortly after midnight, amid tight police security, the girl’s last rites were performed at Pune’s Vaikunt crematorium.
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