{"id":580666,"date":"2025-06-07T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24online.com\/?p=580666"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:47:03","slug":"lucknow-horror-21-year-old-accused-of-toddlers-abduction-rape-shot-dead-in-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24online.com\/cities\/lucknow\/lucknow-horror-21-year-old-accused-of-toddlers-abduction-rape-shot-dead-in-encounter\/580666\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucknow Horror: 21-Year-Old Accused Of Toddler\u2019s Abduction &amp; Rape Shot Dead In Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 21-year-old man who allegedly abducted and raped a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in the Lucknow, Alambagh area on Thursday was killed in an encounter on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect, identified as Deepak Kumar, abducted the toddler near Chandanagar Metro station when she was sleeping beside her mother on Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When her mother woke up and found that the girl was missing, they tried to search in a nearby locality, but after hours of searching, when they failed to recover her, the case was reported at the Alambagh police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the morning of June 5, at 10 am, a complaint was registered that a two-and-a-half-year-old girl had been raped. A case was registered, and five teams were formed. As per the CCTV footage of the scooter, the accused was identified as Deepak Verma. The Commissioner of Police was given a proposal to declare a reward of Rs. 1 lakh,\u201d DCP Central Lucknow Ashish Srivastava said, as quoted by ANI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Lucknow, UP: DCP Central Lucknow Ashish Srivastava says, &quot;On the morning of June 5, at 10 am, a complaint was registered that a 2.5 year old girl had been raped&#8230; A case was registered and five teams were formed&#8230; As per the CCTV footage of the scooter, the accused was\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dWLxpbzW9t\">https:\/\/t.co\/dWLxpbzW9t<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/165obhROO6\">pic.twitter.com\/165obhROO6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1930765138350801051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently multiple teams were formed, and he was arrested on Friday following an extensive investigation. Police said Kumar, who was injured in a brief gunfight, died at a hospital. &#8220;Accused Verma, who was injured in an encounter with the police, has died during treatment,\u201d said Shrivastava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CCTV footage of the incident also circulated on social media platforms. The video shows that a man carried a minor on his lap and took his near Metro lift. After raping the minor, the suspect left the minor under a metro bridge from where she was recovered. Further investigation is underway, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/news24online.com\/india\/jharkhand-shocker-drunk-man-rapes-5-year-old-in-ranchi-after-luring-her-from-wedding-with-mango\/580528\/\">Jharkhand Shocker: Drunk Man Rapes 5-Year-Old In Ranchi After Luring Her From Wedding Reception With Mango<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Friday morning, Lucknow police shot dead Deepak Verma, a 21-year-old accused of abducting and raping a three-year-old girl near a Metro station in the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":469760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","short_title":"Lucknow Horror: 21-Year-Old Accused Of Toddler\u2019s Abduction & Rape Shot Dead In Encounter","seo-keywords":"","news-seo-keywords":"","author-reported-field":"66","author-review-field":null,"article-sources-field":"","byline_field":"","survey_poll":"","ai_generated_summary":"","faq-group":{"faq-question_1":"","faq-description_1":"","faq-question_2":"","faq-description_2":"","faq-question_3":"","faq-description_3":"","faq-question_4":"","faq-description_4":"","faq-question_5":"","faq-description_5":""}},"categories":[19357],"tags":[3124,62204],"class_list":["post-580666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lucknow","tag-lucknow","tag-lucknow-rape-case"],"recipe-group":{"preparation_time":"","total_cooking_time":"","recipe_yield":"","recipe_cuisine":"","recipe_rating_value":"","recipe_servingsize":"","recipe_calories":"","recipe_ingredients":"","recipe_instructions_head_1":"","recipe-instructions_1":"","recipe_instructions_head_2":"","recipe-instructions_2":"","recipe_instructions_head_3":"","recipe-instructions_3":"","recipe_instructions_head_4":"","recipe-instructions_4":"","recipe_instructions_head_5":"","recipe-instructions_5":"","recipe_instructions_head_6":"","recipe-instructions_6":""},"embed-url-group":{"embed-url":"","embed-duration":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lucknow Horror: 21-Year-Old Accused Of Toddler\u2019s Abduction &amp; 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