A 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and murdered in Amroha, while a woman was gang-raped and done to death in Maharajganj during the past 24 hours.
The bodies of the victims were recovered on Saturday morning and the police were trying to identify the killers. Separate cases were registered and the bodies were sent for autopsy.
In Amroha, Class XI student Sunita (name changed) of Hassanpur had gone with her younger sister to collect fodder for cattle on Friday afternoon.
Later, Sunita’s sister returned home, asking her to bring the fodder home. But when she did not return after considerable time, the family members launched a search but failed to trace the girl.
On Saturday morning, the girl’s naked body was found lying in a nearby cane field with blood stains on her private parts.
Circumstantial evidence suggested that she had been raped and then eliminated by the rapists.
The police suspect that the perpetrators of the crime were acquainted with the victim and hence they killed her, fearing being identified and arrested.
In Maharajganj, the body of an unknown woman was found lying between Deoria canal road and Siswa road in Jaishree hamlet of Nichlaul on Saturday morning.
The victim, in her late 20’s, was gang-raped, killed and later her body was dumped at the above spot.
The police were trying to ascertain the identity of the victim so that the perpetrators of the crime could be tracked down.
Meanwhile, in yet another case of crime against members of the fairer sex, a 17-year-old girl was raped by two men in Mahoba on Thursday.
The case was however reported at Mataundh police station of Banda by the girl’s family only on Friday night.
During preliminary probe, it surfaced that two youths raped the 17-year-old girl on the pretext of taking her to a nearby jungle around 5 pm on Thursday in Khanna police station area of Mahoba.
The accused later absconded.
The case was later handed over to Mahoba police for investigation as the scene of crime is in that district.