The girl left home on Monday to visit a neighbouring town to fill up a scholarship form, according to her relatives. The family, however, reported to the police after she didn’t return.
Lakhimpur Kheri| The Uttar Pradesh Police confirmed last night that a 17-year-old girl, whose mutilated body was found near a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Tuesday, was also raped.
The victim appeared to have been killed with a sharp weapon and she had suffered injuries to the neck, the police had said earlier.
“Yes, the post-mortem report has confirmed rape. We are making all possible efforts to identify and arrest the accused. We hope to have a breakthrough soon,” the Kheri police chief, Satendar Kumar said.
The girl left home on Monday to visit a neighbouring town to fill up a scholarship form, according to her relatives. The family, however, reported to the police after she didn’t return.
“I really don’t know what to say or whom to suspect. She left around 8.30 AM on Monday. We do not suspect anyone,” her uncle told the reporters.
In the past 10 days, this is the second case of rape and murder of a teenager in the Lakhimpur Kheri district.
Earlier, a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed and her body found. Her father claimed that she had been strangled, her eyes were gouged out and her tongue cut. The girl’s body was found in the fields of one of the accused. The post-mortem report does not show her eyes were gouged out or tongue cut, the UP Police said. Police also added that the autopsy report mentioned rape and strangulation.
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