A 20-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Sitapur on Tuesday. Her body was recovered from a field on Tuesday noon.
As per reports that the victim left her house to attend nature’s call around 4 am on Tuesday and did not return her home. After waiting for some time her family members went out to search her but they could not locate her. While the search was on, some villagers spotted the body lying in a field and informed her parents.
Police said the victim was strangled to death. But the police could not tell about the motive behind the murder. “We have sent the body for autopsy to ascertain the cause of murder. The doctors had been asked to videograph the autopsy to the satisfaction of the victikms’s family. Apparently it seemed that the girl was strangled to death,’ the police said. Police refused to comment if the girl was subjected to sexual assault before she was killed.
Killed
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a 20-year-old youth, lokesh Kumar of Bheekhampur village under Bannadevi police station area of Aligarh on Monday night. lokesh had gone to his field to water the crops and did not return home. When his family reached the field they found him lying dead. Police are investigating the case.
Injured
Six persons suffered injuries in firecrackers explosion in Kotwali police station area of Amroha around 10 am on Tuesday. Those suffered injuries were identified as Shubhan, his mother Chanda, his aunt Fatima and other kin identified as Mumtaz, her daughter Sohana and another kin Nisha. They were rushed to distriuct hospital. However, seeing their condition as serious the victims were sent to Moradabad hospital.
Police said Munnwar of Danish Maidan area ran a workshop manufacturing firecrackers. “The unit is illegal and Munawar was running it without a license. The explosion took place at the house and the injured lives in a house adjacent to Munawaar’s house,” the police said. The cops added that Munawar was absconding after the explosion and the police teams are hunting him.