Dumka, Oct 10 (PTI) A girl has been found dead near her house in Jharkhand’s Dumka, with police suspecting that she was raped and murdered.
The body of the Class 9 student was recovered from bushes about 500 metres from her house on Friday night, Kathikund police station in-charge Balram Singh said.
According to the victim’s parents, she had returned home from school around 3 pm, and her father asked her to untie the cow in the field after she had her lunch.
She, however, did not return home, prompting her family to start searching for her. During the search, they found her body in the field.
“The body has been sent for post-mortem. Police have launched a detailed investigation,” the police officer said. PTI COR RPS NSD
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