The body of an eight-year-old girl was found in an agricultural field in Outer Delhi’s Badli area, the police said on Friday.
The body of an eight-year-old girl was found in an agricultural field in Outer Delhi’s Badli area, the police said on Friday.
The police has registered a case of murder in this connection and said they have not ruled out the possibility of sexual assault. The girl’s father is a farm labourer and works in the agricultural field in which her body was found.
The girl was last seen before going to sleep Thursday night in a makeshift bed outside her cottage. She was not there Friday morning. As her parents started looking for her, it was her father who found her body in the field, police said.
There is no stab injury, incision marks or other wounds, suggesting that the girl was either throttled, smothered or strangled to death.
The clothes on her body were intact, they said adding, however, that it has to ascertained whether her parents had put those back on before the police arrived. The body has been sent for a post-mortem and the report is awaited to confirm whether there was sexual assault, the police said.
“A case of murder has been registered and police are questioning a few people,” said DCP (Outer) Vikramjit Singh.
The spot where the body was found is hardly 50m away from the cottage occupied by the girl’s family.
