Missing six-year-old girl found dead with a scarf tied to neck

  • | Wednesday | 23rd January, 2019

He found the scarf tied around her neck tightly. GHAZIABAD: The body of a six-year-old girl, who was missing since Monday evening, was found in a vacant plot near her home in Loni’s Alvi Nagar on Tuesday morning. A scarf was tied around her neck which was allegedly used to strangle her. SP (rural) Arvind Kumar Maurya said, “The FIR has been registered and efforts are being made to nab the culprit. The family has expressed suspicion over the tutor and he is being questioned.

GHAZIABAD: The body of a six-year-old girl, who was missing since Monday evening, was found in a vacant plot near her home in Loni’s Alvi Nagar on Tuesday morning. A scarf was tied around her neck which was allegedly used to strangle her. Police are also suspecting it to be a case of sexual assault.The girl’s father, who works as a cook, said that she went missing around 8pm on Monday after returning from her tuition class. Police have detained her tutor and are questioning him. An FIR for murder has been registered against an unknown person presently.The deceased’s cousin said, “She had left her home around 6.30pm on Monday for her tutor’s house which is located in the same locality. She returned around 7.45pm and after putting her bag down told her mother that she was coming back in five minutes as one ‘bhaiya’ is calling her outside. But when she did not return after half an hour the family members started looking for her.”Cops were informed about her disappearance around 9.30pm through the police control room and the local police post. The family alleged that the police did not make any efforts to trace the girl throughout the night.“It was the girl’s father who found her lying in a vacant plot near a mosque where he had gone to offer the namaz around 6am on Tuesday. He found the scarf tied around her neck tightly. He removed it and tried to revive her after bringing her home. He subsequently informed the police about the girl’s death to police. Had the police tried to locate the girl in the night, she might have been saved,” the cousin added.The police took the body in their possession and sent it for post-mortem. The girl was eldest among her three siblings. SP (rural) Arvind Kumar Maurya said, “The FIR has been registered and efforts are being made to nab the culprit. The family has expressed suspicion over the tutor and he is being questioned. The report is awaited.”

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