In a gruesome incident, a pregnant minor girl has been killed and her skeleton found in a forest under the Daitari police limits in Keonjhar district. The deceased was identified as lemba (14), daughter of Surendra Singh of Gurujangpur village in Kaans panchayat under the Kaliapani police station of Jajpur district.
Police recovered the girl’s skull, bones and bloodstained clothes from the site during a search operation near Talapada village in Keonjhar district on Thursday. Her mother identified her clothes on Friday. Initially, police had found it difficult to collect information about the deceased as no missing complaint was lodged. However, the Daitari police managed to meet the victim’s family with help of the Kaliapani police.
The deceased was found pregnant just a week before the Raja festival. She had eloped with a man identified as Mitu Dehuri (30) of Dehuri Sahi of neighbouring Ostapala village and had married him secretly. Mitu, who is at large, was already married and has two sons. After the girl’s murder was confirmed, her mother lodged an FIR and police and police have started investigation.