Close on the heels of the brutal killing of a toddler in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh was rocked by another sensational crime in which a minor girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered and her body was dumped near a graveyard in Hamirpur.
Circumstantial evidence suggested that the girl, a student of class 5, was killed after being gang-raped.
The agitated family and locals staged a huge protest and did not allow the police to send the body for autopsy. They demanded that the police first arrest the perpetrators of the crime and only then take the body for post-mortem.
Senior police officers were reportedly camping at the spot along with a forensic team and were trying to persuade the protesters to give them some time so that the culprits could be brought to book.
Reports said that an 11-year-old girl residing in Kurara locality of Hamirpur was sleeping outside the house with her parents on Friday night. The girl, studying in class 5 in the local primary school. was reportedly kidnapped by some persons sometime late Friday night. When her parents found the girl missing, they raised an alarm after which the villagers launched a search. However, they were shocked when they found the body of the girl lying near the graveyard without any clothes.
It appeared that some persons had gang-raped the girl and then strangulated her to death to conceal the crime.
Soon after the recovery of the body, the local cops, along with Superintendent of Police of Hamirpur, Hemraj Meena, rushed to the spot. The family members and local residents had kept the body on road and were demanding immediate arrest of the culprits at the time of filing the report.