Jaipur: Missing girl found dead with throat slit in Amer area, rape suspected

JAIPUR: A nine-year-old girl was allegedly killed by slitting her throat with a sharp-edged weapon in Amer area here on Saturday, police said.
The girl went missing on Saturday afternoon and later her nude body was found at a secluded place near Dadabadi, additional DCP Suman Chaudhary said.
It is a suspected case of rape and murder but the exact cause will be known in the postmortem report only, she said.
The body has been kept at a hospital's mortuary for post mortem and forensic experts have collected evidence from the spot, police said.
A case has been registered and the matter is being investigated, they said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)