Chaibasa (Jharkhand), Nov 9 (PTI) An eight-year-old girl was raped and crushed to death with stones allegedly by her teenage neighbour in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, a police officer said on Monday.
The incident occurred on November 3, and the mutilated body of the victim was recovered on Friday following the arrest of the 19-year-old accused, Officer-in-Charge of Muffasil police station Vinod Kumar said.
The victim was playing near her house in a village on November 3 when she went missing. The family members, along with villagers, searched for her in all possible places for the next two days but in vain.
During the search, children told villagers that the victim was last seen going towards a nearby jungle. The villagers also found that the accused youth was not at home, triggering suspicion, Kumar said.
His brother told people that he had been to another village.
The victim’s family members and villagers reached that village and questioned him when he confessed to the crime.
The village chief then informed the police, who interrogated him and recovered the mutilated body from the jungle on the lead provided by him on Friday last. PTI BS NN
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