Kolkata:
The physique of a lacking minor woman, suspected to be a sufferer of rape and homicide, was recovered from a area at Basanti in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Monday night.
In keeping with the district police superintendent Palash Chandra Dhali, the minor woman, an eighth-standard pupil, had been lacking since January 9.
The sufferer’s relations, in response to him, registered the lacking case three days later, on January 12.
“Now the physique has been recovered. The police are investigating the matter on the idea of the criticism of the sufferer’s mother and father. The physique has been despatched for a autopsy,” he mentioned.
Sources mentioned that because the lacking report was registered by the mother and father of the sufferer, the cops began on the lookout for her. “Lastly, on Monday night we acquired data that the sufferer was hidden someplace in a area close to her residence,” they mentioned.
They added that lastly, the physique was recovered with out garments after digging out a portion of the sector.
The sufferer’s mother and father claimed that their daughter went out of the home on the afternoon of January 9 after being known as by some native youth.
“She has been lacking since then. We suspect that she was gang-raped first after which her physique was buried. We demand the culprits be tracked and punished severely,” mentioned a member of the household.
There was rigidity within the space following the restoration of the physique. Native residents additionally staged protests in opposition to the police over the matter after the restoration of the physique.
The restoration of the sufferer’s physique got here simply hours after a particular courtroom in Kolkata sentenced Sanjay Roy, the only accused within the case of ghastly rape and homicide of a girl junior physician of state-run RG Kar Medical School and Hospital throughout the hospital premises in August final yr, to life imprisonment.
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