Aligarh: The mutilated body of a 3-year-old girl was found in a garbage dump here, with an initial probe indicating that the killing was a fallout of a monetary dispute, police said Thursday.
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the crime.
Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Kulhari said the girl went missing from Tappal township on May 31 and on June 2, police found her mutilated body in a garbage dump near her house.
Police have arrested two persons — Zahid and Aslam — on the basis of the complaint of the victim’s father.
“Post-mortem examination has not found any sign of sexual assault. The report confirmed death due to strangulation,” the police officer said.
The victim’s father has demanded that other family members of the accused be arrested as the crime could not have been carried out without their knowledge.
He threatened that he would start a fast unto death from tomorrow if no further arrests were made.
Security measures at Tappal township, 50 kilometers from the district headquarters, have been tightened as a precautionary step after tension mounted there on Wednesday.
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Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka express shock
Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday expressed shock at the horrific killing of a three-year-old girl in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and demanded swift action against the killers.
He wondered how any human being can treat a child so brutally and said such a crime should not go unpunished.
“The horrific murder of a little girl in Aligarh, UP has shocked and disturbed me. How can any human being treat a child with such brutality? This terrible crime must not go unpunished. The UP police must act swiftly to bring the killers to justice,” he said on Twitter.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also took to Twitter to condemn the inhuman crime.
“The brutal murder in Aligarh is yet another inhuman, unspeakable crime against an innocent child. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain her parents must feel. What has become of us,” she asked.
She said she has been shaken and wondered what kind of society is being made. She demanded the strongest punishment for this crime.