Tension gripped the Sarsava area of Saharanpur when the body of a 16-year-old madarsa student was found in a field in Kishanpura village on Thursday morning.
local police, which sent the body for autopsy test but did not rule out the possibility of gang-rape with the girl, who was kidnapped and then murdered by slitting her neck with some sharp-edged weapon. The irate villagers also attacked the policemen after the incident and tension prevailed in the area. Additional forces have been rushed to control the situation.
According to the family members of the girl, she went missing on Wednesday evening after which they launched a hunt and later reported the matter to the local police. However, her body was only recovered from the nearby agricultural field in the wee hours of Thursday. Police said prima facie investigation revealed that more than one person was involved in the crime. Investigation was underway to find out the culprits.
In Muzaffarnagar also, tension prevailed after a 45-year-old widow, hailing from Nara hamlet of Mansorpur, was returning from fields on Wednesday evening when one Furqan aka Pasa, kidnapped and raped her. Former pradhan of the village, who lodged a report in the matter later staged a strong protest demanding immediate arrest of the accused. later heavy police force has been deployed to avert any clash and a hunt was also launched for the culprit.
Meanwhile, in a bizarre case, a man poisoned his three children to death just as he found them coming in his way of second marriage. The sensational incident was reported from Fatehpur, when one Vijaypal, a resident of Rasoolpur locality of Gazipur, wanted to get married again after his wife died about two years back. According to local police, as Vijaypal, had three children –Rohit (10), Kanchan (6) and Deva (3), so no one is ready to marry him.