Gujarat school principal kills girl for resisting rape, dumps body; arrested

The principal of a primary school in Pipaliya in Gujarat’s Dohad district was arrested for allegedly killing a 6-year-old girl of the school after she resisted his rape attempts.

The body of the girl, who studied in Class 1 in the school, was found in the school compound on September 19. The postmortem report of the victim showed that she had been suffocated to death.

Dohad Superintendent of Police Rajdeep Singh Jhala said that a total of 10 teams were formed to investigate the case. During the investigation, the police found that the parents had sent the girl to school with the school principal, Govind Nat, in his car.

When she didn’t return from school, the girl’s parents asked Nat about her whereabouts, and he said that he had dropped her at school. Following an investigation, the police took Govind Nat into custody and questioned him.

During the interrogation, Nat confessed to killing the girl as she resisted his attempts to rape her. Nat further said that when he tried to rape the girl, she started screaming. He put his hands on her mouth tightly to stop her screaming.

However, the girl died, following which he hid her in the back of the car.

After that, Govind Nat went to school as usual and taught the students. After the classes ended, he returned to the car, dumped her belongings near the school gate and left the girl’s body behind the classroom.

When the girl’s parents along with locals reached the school in the evening of September 19, they found her belongings near the gate and they found her body in the school compound.