KANPUR: Body of an 11-year-old girl, allegedly abducted from her house in a village in Safipur Kotwali area of Unnao on Thursday night, was found under mysterious circumstances from a nearby orchard on Friday morning. Police said there were injury marks on the girl's naked body and her head was smashed with some
heavy object.
"The girl went missing while sleeping outside her house along with her father and two siblings. At around 5 am on Friday, her nude body was found in an orchard at a distance of 100 metres from her house. There were injury marks on her private parts and around her neck and head," SP Unnao MP Verma.
"We have registered a case of murder against unknown person/s and launched an investigation with the help of four police teams. However, whether the girl was raped or not will be clear only after we get the postmortem report," said Verma.
The SP said that there is a possibility of involvement of a local person, who fled the village after seeing the dog squad. "We are using electronic surveillance to track the person," he added.