GORAKHPUR: The Kushinagar police on Friday dug out the body of a three-year-old girl from her grave and sent it for post-mortem examination on her mother’s allegation that she was murdered by her stepfather. The body was exhumed with the permission of the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM).
As per the police complaint filed by the mother of the deceased, the step-father of the girl killed her on Thursday. Police have not registered any FIR so far and are awaiting the postmortem report. The body was exhumed in the presence of SDM Khadda, Arvind Kumar.
Reports said one Durgesh Singh of Bhujouli village under Khadda police station limit in Kushinagar district married one Monika of Bharwalia village under Kasya police station limit two months back. It was the second marriage for both of them. Durgesh has two children from his first marriage while Monika had a three-year-old daughter from her first marriage.
As per the complaint, Durgesh took away the girl on a motorcycle on Thursday. He later told Monika that the girl fell from the motorcycle and died and he had buried her. When she asked him to show the spot where her daughter fell, he started beating her. Monika informed the police and also her family and expressed the doubt that her husband had killed her daughter and also buried her body.
As per Monika, earlier everything was all right in the marriage but for the last few days, there were frequent arguments between the couple on the issue of the girl.
Acting on the complaint, police sent the body for postmortem and also detained the accused for interrogation.
SP Kushinagar, Vinod Kumar Singh, told reporters that on the complaint of the girl’s mother, police have sent the body for postmortem and the report is awaited.
“The girl’s mother has accused her husband of killing his stepdaughter. However, the accused says that the girl died in an accident. Things will become clearer after we get the autopsy report. Action will be taken accordingly,” he added.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)