Decomposed body of minor girl recovered in Karnal, one held

KARNAL: Police on Saturday recovered the decomposed body of a minor girl at Gheer village in Karnal district.

The police said a 24-year-old man had been arrested on the charge of killing the girl after raping her. He had confessed to the crime, the police added.

Investigation officer Rajesh Kumar said the Class 5 student was adopted by her uncle after the death of her parents.

The nine-year-old girl had come to her grandparents’ home about five days ago and was missing since April 9. Her body was recovered after a garbage collector noticed it near a garbage box and informed the police.

The body was stuffed in a sack and covered under the lid of a garbage box, the police officer said.

Karnal superintendent of police (SP) Surender Singh Bhoria said on the basis of preliminary investigation, the police arrested a man identified as Ravi Kumar. During interrogation, he admitted that he took the girl to his place on April 9 and murdered her after rape.

The accused later dumped the body in the garbage box, the SP said.

Kumar had been booked under relevant sections of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Indian Penal Code, the SP said.

According to the police, the family members of the girl had filed a complaint on the day she went missing. The police had then registered an FIR under section 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person).