An 11-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered by some unknown persons in Farrukhabad. The killers also buried the minor’s body in an attempt to conceal the crime. 

The police registered a case and sent the body for autopsy. 

According to reports, Kavita (name changed), a resident of Amritpur area of Farrukhabad and class 5 student at a primary school, went to the fields on Wednesday afternoon to give food to her father, who was working there. 

However, as Kavita did not reach the field, the family became anxious and launched a search for her. After failing the find the girl, the family informed the local police about her disappearance but the cops refused to register a case and asked the family to search the girl on their own.

On Saturday morning, while searching the girl, one of the family members found that someone had damaged the crop in their field by digging the ground and later putting the soil back. Suspecting foul play, the family members dug up the ground and were shocked to find the body of the missing girl buried there. Her clothes were torn and circumstantial evidence suggested that she was kidnapped, raped and later killed by some unknown persons who also buried the body to conceal the crime. 

On learning about the recovery of the body, the local station house officer, Ram Prakash, along with the SHO of Rajepur police station reached the spot and started investigation.

Meanwhile, two more cases of rape were reported on Saturday. In the first case reported from Shamli, a woman hailing from Ambehta locality of Kandhla was alone in the house a few days back when a youth, identified as Gaiyur of Ghari hamlet of Kandhla, barged in and tried to raped her. When she resisted, the youth whipped out a country-made weapon and threatening her with her life, raped her. The accused later escaped.

The victim did not inform anyone about the incident and this emboldened the youth and he tried to sexually exploit her again by showing her the video clips of the earlier incident. When the woman did not succumb to the blackmail, he uploaded the clippings on social media. The woman then revealed her trauma to her family and they lodged a report in this connection on Saturday morning. 

A case has been registered and a hunt has been launched for the accused. 

In another incident, a 22-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by two men in Muzaffarnagar district. 

The incident took place on Friday when the woman was alone at her house in Kheri Firozabad village under Kakroli police station.

According to a complaint lodged by the woman’s father, Gaurav and Ravi of the same village, barged into the woman’s house and raped her parents were away.

The rapists also threatened the woman with dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anyone.

A case has been registered against Gaurav and Ravi, both in their mid-20s. They are absconding. 

The woman was sent for medical examination.