MP cops stop child funeral, uncover rape & murder

Indore | Thursday | 26th April, 2018

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The police team rushed to Jaora and was just in time to stop the funeral procession.The body was sent for post-mortem. Charges of rape under IPC and POCSO will be added if the postmortem confirms it, the SP said. A team went to the village but was told that the body had been taken to Jaora where her mother’s parents live. Police have found that two days back, the stepfather locked the mother in a room and beat up the girl. “Rape charges will be added once the detailed post-mortem report confirms it,” Ratlam SP Amit Singh told TOI.Piploda police got an anonymous call in the morning that a child had died mysteriously and was being “hastily buried”..