Patna: Cops in a fix as ‘murdered’ girl releases video

PATNA: The Vaishali police are in a fix after a video of a ‘murdered girl’ surfaced in which she is claiming to be alive. She said she had fled home to marry a man of her choice.
The girl’s father Chulhai Rai (55) had lodged an FIR with the Rajapakar police station on August 21 that his daughter, aged around 17 years, was kidnapped by Sanoj Kumar Rai (24) and four others.
SHO Naushad Alam said within six hours of lodging the FIR, Chulhai and his family members informed the police that their daughter’s body has been found dumped at a roadside in a village under Bidupur police station.
“On August 22 morning the body was recovered. Chulhai Rai and other family members identified it as their daughter’s body. Thereafter body was handed over to them after conducting a post mortem,” the SHO said, adding, the body was later cremated.
“However, on Friday night, we came to know that the girl assumed to be murdered has released a video that she was alive and had married Sanoj. We are now trying to make the girl appear before police,” he said.
The SHO said it has also come to light that she had informed her family members after the body was recovered that she was alive.
“Chulhai had submitted a written complaint against Sanoj and four others of his family for killing his daughter after body recovery,” he said, adding, raids were being conducted to nab Sanoj and others for killing the girl.
Alam said the girl is aged around 22 years and had fled almost three days before her father informed the police. “She had also taken away jewellery, educational certificates and clothes,” Alam said.
“Police didn’t preserve DNA samples from the body for all these reasons. Chulhai Rai didn’t even provide his daughter’s photograph to police for matching,” he said adding police believes he and his family members knowingly misguided the police.
Vaishali SP Maneesh said the father and other family members would be now quizzed as to why they claimed that the body was of their daughter.
“The ambit of the investigation has now increased with the girl’s video surfacing claiming she is alive,” he said.
The SP said police will now also ascertain the identity of the body which had been cremated by Chulhai Rai and his family claiming it to be of their daughter.