RAJKOT: The forensic postmortem of a seven-year-old girl whose body was found bundled in a plastic bag in Morbi town revealed that she was raped and brutally killed by smashing a stone on her head.
The body was spotted by some people behind a panjrapol (cattle shed) on Sartanpar Road. The girl had gone missing from her house on January 19.
Her parents are natives of Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh and they had come to Morbi a few months ago.
Morbi police said she had gone missing from the ceramic unit where her parents were working at the factory’s outdoor unit.
Her parents started searching for her and inquired in the neighbouring areas. As she was found nowhere, they approached Morbi police and lodged a complaint of kidnapping.
In the footages of CCTV, the girl is seen playing in an open area but after sometime, she was not there.
After being informed by the locals, police sent the body to Rajkot Civil Hospital for forensic postmortem. “The report confirmed that she was raped and then murdered. Some suspects have been identified and we are questioning them,” said Radhika Bharai, deputy superintendent of police, Morbi.