Missing girl’s body found buried in ditch

| Mar 2, 2019, 04:24 IST
Kanpur: Body of a seven-year-old girl, who was missing since Tuesday, was found buried by the roadside in a village under Rasoolabad police station of Kanpur Dehat district on late Thursday night. Police have detained a physically challenged man in this connection.

The girl’s family alleged that she was raped and murdered by a physically challenged man, but the police said that they were waiting for the autopsy report to reach to any conclusion.


The sources at the district hospital said that as per preliminary autopsy report, the girl bore injury marks on her private parts and rest of the body.


Police said the victim was playing near her house on Tuesday evening when she went missing under mysterious circumstances. The physically challnged man was spotted near the girl’s house on Tuesday. Her parents on Thursday raised suspicion following which he was detained for questioning by the police. On the basis of inputs provided by him, the police recovered the body buried in a pit by the roadside close to her the village.


When contacted, station house officer Rasoolabad Kotwali Lalit Kumar said, “On the basis of information provided by girl’s family members, we have detained a physically challenged man and further action will be taken after getting the final autopsy report.


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