JAIPUR: The body of an eight-year-old girl, who was missing for the past two days, was found close to the victim’s house in Jaipur’s Shahpura on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Neetu Gurjar.
Cops claimed that she was murdered by one of the family members though no one has been arrested yet.
Officials said that the motive behind the murder appears to be the fact that the child knew something about a family member who did not want it to be revealed.
Shahpura police station SHO Rakesh Kumar said, “The victim’s family had filed a missing report on Friday evening and claimed that the child was not found since afternoon. They claimed to have searched everywhere and we also started a search operation and found the body.”
According to officials, the body was found just 10 metre from the boundary of the house.
Kumar said, “We checked all the CCTV cameras and realised that the girl had not gone away from the house. So we intensified the search within the victim’s residence and nearby areas. The girl had been strangled and her body dumped at the site where it was found. There were no injury marks on the body.”
While cops have not found any evidence to indicate that the victim’s parents were involved in the crime, they are very assertive about the fact that Neetu was murdered by a family member.
Elaborating on the investigation, the officer said, “During the investigation, we found that Neetu had information about an illicit relationship within the family due to which she was killed. The accused felt threatened and to prevent the child from sharing this detail with anyone, she was murdered mercilessly.”
Cops have detained few suspects who are being questioned intensively and the accused are expected to be arrested on Monday. The child’s body was handed over to family after post-mortem.