An eight-year-old Muslim girl was tortured to death after she strayed into a private orchard to collect mangoes at a village in Bihar’s Araria district on Sunday, police said.
Amerun Khatun of Teentikri village, 300 km north-east of Patna, had gone shopping with her father, Ibrahim Safi, on the eve of Eid. While returning, she insisted on collecting some mangoes from an orchard, which was on the way.
Safi, however, turned down her request only to realise some time later that Khatun had given him a slip. Hoping that his daughter would return home, which was nearby, Safi did not look for her.
“It was only when she did not return till late Sunday evening that I got panic. Later, villagers informed me that my daughter was lying in a pool of blood near a well, adjoining the orchard,” Safi said.
“I found my daughter murdered brutally. There were several cut marks on her body and she was subjected to electric shock as well, to give an impression that she had been accidentally electrocuted,” he added.
Safi accused the owner of the mango orchard Sanjay Mehta and his henchmen of killing his daughter and also claimed that blood stains were found in the orchard.
Station House Officer(SHO) of Basmatiya police station Sadanand Sah confirmed the injury marks on the girl’s body. “Only after we get the postmortem report we can ascertain the exact cause of death,” Sah said.
The SHO said that the girl’s father lodged a complaint against Mehta and his aide Vinod Mehta, who were absconding. He suspected that they had crossed over to Nepal.
“We are trying to arrest the accused. We will definitely take action against the perpetrators of the crime,” Araria Superintendent of Police Sudhir Porika said.
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