In the medical examination of an 11-year-old girl Pinki who was found murdered and packed in a bag at furniture market on December 1; doctors on Monday confirmed that the girl was sexually assaulted.
Sources in police said the post-mortem, conducted by a special panel of doctors, confirmed that the victim was strangulated to death. Doctors also confirmed that the deceased had died 22 hours before she was found.
The relatives of Pinki refused to cremate the body after post-mortem examination and the dead body was taken to her house at Village Palsora and later it was kept at the mortuary of Guru Asra trust at Sector 38. The cremation of body will be done on Tuesday.
Surjit Singh Malik DSP, UT police said the SIT (Special Investigation team) has also rounded up few people on being a suspect into the matter and questioning is being done to nab the accused as earlier as possible.
The 11-year-old girl and a student of Class VI, was found strangled to death with her body put in a jute sack and thrown in the jungle area in Sector 52. A complaint was also lodged by her parents of missing with the police on November 27. Police found a plastic rope tied around the girl’s neck and blood stains were also found on her face, clothes and undergarments.
The girl had left home on November 27 evening after taking `20 from her mother and did not return home after that. The family lodged a complaint with the police following which a kidnapping case was registered at the Sector 39 police station.
The sack containing the girl’s body was noticed by a boy who went to the jungle area adjoining the Sector 52 furniture market in the evening to answer nature’s call. He opened the sack and was shocked to find a body. He called the police.The boy was later identified by the girl’s father, Ram Kirpal Verma, a vegetable vendor in Palsora village.