The body of an unidentified 9-year-old girl with more than 80 injuries, including some on her private parts, was…
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The body of an unidentified 9-year-old girl with more than 80 injuries, including some on her private parts, was found recently by the Gujarat police. It was reported that the girl was raped before being brutally killed.
According to the media reports, a couple from Andhra Pradesh had come forward saying that the victim was their daughter. However, the man after seeing the body was not sure whether it was as his daughter or not, reported NDTV.
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The police will now conduct a DNA test to confirm the identity.
After having a look at the girl’s body, the man, reportedly told his wife that the child’s height was different.
The fingerprints from the body also didn’t match the biometric records of the man’s daughter. The fingerprint of the couple’s daughter was retrieved from her Aadhaar details.
The police had found the body on 6 April at a ground in Surat’s Bhestan area.
The post-mortem report of the minor had revealed that she was raped and tortured before being strangled to death. The post-mortem report also revealed that she was tortured for more than six days as the 86 external injuries she sustained were inflicted over a week. Most of the injuries were caused by a wooden object, media reports say.
A case has been registered against the unidentified accused.
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