A woman was gangraped, torched and later abandoned in a gunny bag in Ayodhya, while a 10-year-old girl was found reportedly abused and later done to death in Banda.
In Ayodhya, residents of Kumarganj area noticed thick smoke emanating from a gunny bag near Dr Badri Prasad Sarvodaya Inter College in Ramganj (Rae Bareli-Faizabad Road) on Monday morning. On a closer look, they found that the bag contained a girl was huddled inside and torched. They later informed the police who rushed there and doused the fire. By that time, the victim had been burnt beyond recognition.
Circumstantial evidence pointed towards the victim being raped before being brutally killed. The police suspected that the assailants torched her to conceal her identity and later abandoned the gunny bag there. The body was sent for autopsy and efforts were being made to ascertain the victim’s identity and track down the killers.
In another sensational incident in Banda, cops at Baberu police station recovered the body of an unknown 10-year-old girl from the fields on Sunday night. Circumstantial evidence suggested that the victim was strangled to death. However, the victim’s family claimed that the girl was also raped before being murdered to conceal the crime. The kin claimed that the girl had gone to work in the fields on Sunday but when she did not return till late evening, they looked for her and were shocked to find her body in the fields. The family denied having an enmity which could have led to the killing of the girl.
A case was registered and the body was sent for autopsy. Some local youths were detained and quizzed by the police but so far no concrete leads could be obtained.