9-year-old Russian victim identifies rapist

The nine-year-old Russian girl and her mother on Monday identified Aman Bharadwaj as the accused who raped the girl at north Goa's Arambol beach on January 26. The identification parade was conducted today by the state police, two days after the accused was arrested from a slum in Chembur in Mumbai.

A senior police officer said the mother-daughter duo identified the accused as the one who raped the girl. The police had conducted an identification parade of Anil Raghuvanshi, an alleged accomplice in the case, last week.

A 34-year-old Russian woman, holidaying in Goa with her minor daughter, had filed a complaint at the Pernem police station, saying a man had raped her child in the sea while his friend kept her busy in conversation.

The police had zeroed in on Bharadwaj, who gave the police the slip and slipped out of the state, only to be arrested in Mumbai a day later.

Raghuvanshi, who was in touch with the police, was on the run too and was arrested at Panaji bus stand.