Police..! On Sunday in a village in Uttar Pradesh, an 8-year-old girl was strangled to death. In the late evening in Kheri, around 130 km from Lucknow State Capital, she was found in a field of sugarcane, hours after she was missing.
In this murder case, the police have now also added rape charge and rape charge against them based on her body’s injuries under the strict POCSO Law. The clothes she was supposed to wear were strangled to her, police said. There were no arrests yet.
According to villagers, the girl was out on Sunday morning with her grandmother on her field, grazing goats. She said she’d go home by afternoon. The family began to look for her when she wasn’t home at night.
“She said she was tired of going home. I told her, “I’m going to grass my goats at home.” At night, I brought the goats. She never got home, then we realised. Then we believed she might have attended a local wedding. But there we haven’t even found her.
She was found later on her body. Her legs were tied and there had been plenty of blood, “The grandmother of the girl told reporters that. Right now your dad, a worker migrant, is not in UP.
She was the eldest of all three. “A panel of eight doctors led a postmortem. Due to antemortem strangulation the cause of death was determined to be ‘asphyxia.’
The panel did not find any rape confirmation, but in this case we appealed to the Rape Charges and to the POCSO Act because of the nature of the injuries on the girl’s body, “In an afternoon statement, Vijay Dhull, chief of police of Kheri, said.
