The body of a 12-year-old girl, who went missing on February 25, was found buried in a pit on Tuesday evening in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshah...
The body of a 12-year-old girl, who went missing on February 25, was found buried in a pit on Tuesday evening in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, reported NDTV. A villager, who lives near the pit, has been arrested from Shimla in Himachal Pradesh.
“It seems the girl has been murdered,” Bulandshahr District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar said. “One cannot deny the possibility of sexual assault too. We will take the strictest possible action.”
The Bulandshahr Police said that the girl, who lived in Siraura village, was working at a field with her family members on February 25 when she felt thirsty. The girl told them she was going back home to have water.
“When she did not return, her sisters called out for her, but there was no response,” Bulandshahr Police chief Santosh Kumar Singh said. “The family assumed she had gone home and went back to home. However, they did not find her there and started searching for her.”
Singh said that the family filed a complaint on February 28. “She was working in the fields with her mother and two sisters about 100 metres from the house where her body was recovered,” he added.
The police officer said that when the family member of the minor went back to the field...
