A 17-year-old girl, whose mutilated body was found near a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district earlier today, was also raped, the police confirmed Tuesday night.
The police had initially said the girl appeared to have been killed with a sharp weapon and that she had sustained injuries to her neck. The body was found near a dried-up pond, around 200 metres from her village, the cops added.
“Yes, the post-mortem report has confirmed rape. We are making all possible efforts to identify and arrest the accused. We hope to have a breakthrough soon,” Satendar Kumar, Kheri’s police chief, said.
According to the relatives of the girl, she left home on Monday to visit a neighbouring town to fill up a scholarship form. However, when she did not return the family informed the police.
“I really don’t know what to say or whom to suspect. She left around 8.30 AM on Monday. We do not suspect anyone,” her uncle told the media.
This is the second rape and murder of a teenage girl from this district in the past 10 days.
Her father alleged his daughter had been strangled, and had her eyes gouged out and her tongue cut off.
The police said the post-mortem report, which was released a day later, did not show her eyes had been gouged or that her tongue was cut out. The police said the autopsy did mention rape and strangulation.
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