In a new turn of events in the case of alleged Kosagumuda minor girl rape and murder, the postmortem report of the victim has mentioned that she was not raped. But the girl’s family members are not ready to accept the autopsy report read out to them by police officials on Tuesday. They stuck to their stand that the girl was raped before being murdered. They demanded that police exhume the body of the girl and get a fresh postmortem conducted.
“We want the police to exhume the body from the coffin and carry out autopsy (again). All the accused must also be arrested by January 4 next. Circumstantial evidences at the spot show that the girl was raped and murdered. But the current postmortem is talking of strangulation only without mentioning anything about rape,” a relative of the girl said.
On the day, DIG (Southern Range) Satyabrata Bhoi and other police officials visited the crime spot and talked to the girl’s family members. Notably, on December 13 when the girl had gone outside her house to attend nature’s call, she went missing. Next morning, family members and villagers found her body lying in a field some 300 metre from the house. Two jeans trousers and a pair of sandals were also found near the spot.
Following this, her family members had alleged that the girl was raped and murdered. Police handed over the girl’s body to her family late on December 13 night after postmortem. Alleging delay in handing over the postmortem report to the girl’s family, the Nabarangpur District Congress recently observed a bandh and demanded that the accused be arrested at the earliest.