what is ujjain rape case

On September 2023, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped and dumped near the citys Dandi Ashram in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. The girl had boarded an auto at Jeevan Kheri before CCTV cameras spotted her walking on the streets of Ujjain while she was bleeding and with a rag barely covering her. The police arrested an auto driver, Bharat Soni, and detained three others in connection with the case. The father of the rape accused, Raju Soni, has asked for the death penalty for his son if found guilty. The Madhya Pradesh police said it took an extraordinary effort to crack the case, which involved interrogating hundreds of people and scanning footage from over 700 CCTV cameras before they found links to the main accused. The police have also registered a case against another auto driver, Rakesh Malviya, because the survivor boarded his auto at some point after the crime was committed but Malviya did not inform the police despite her condition.