Kanpur, 17

March (HS): A sensational case has come to light in a village in Kanpur, Uttar

Pradesh, where an 11-year-old girl, who had gone to graze goats on Monday

evening, was murdered and her body buried in a field. The family suspects a

neighbour of raping and murdering her. Police took possession of the body on

Tuesday and sent it for a post-mortem examination. They have detained one

suspect and launched an investigation.

The

victim's father from a village under Bidhanu police station area said that his

daughter was a fifth grade student. On Monday evening she had gone to the field

to graze goats. When she did not return home till late night, the family

informed the police and started searching on their own but could not find her.

Today early morning when the family started searching again, they were shocked

to see the soil dug up at a place in a wheat field about three hundred meters

away from the house. When the family dug there and looked, they saw the girl's

body. The family immediately informed the police. The police called the

forensic team and got the girl's body out, but there were no clothes on the

body.

The police

inspected the scene and sent the body for postmortem. Seeing the condition of

the body, there was chaos in the family. They have accused a young man living

in the neighborhood of raping, murdering and burying the body. On the complaint

of the family, the police detained the accused young man into custody and took

him to the police station for questioning. Bidhanu police station in-charge Tej

Bahadur said that a man has been taken into custody and is being questioned. “Further

legal action in the case will be taken only after the postmortem report comes.

It is not possible to give more information, right now,” he concluded.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi