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The 'Aligarh' director took to his Twitter handle on Friday and asked everyone to give Shilpa some privacy, pointing out how public figures are proclaimed guilty even before justice is meted out.

The police have registered an FIR under IPC sections 376 (rape), 302 (murder) and also under the POCSO Act against an unidentified person.

The girl had gone to the fields Sunday afternoon to collect fodder for cattle but did not return.

According to police, the minor girl had gone missing from her house in a village under the Harduaganj police station area on Sunday morning.

Khan had hit the headlines after the 2017 tragedy at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, in which several children died due to a lack of oxygen cylinders.

The district magistrate said that injured people were immediately rushed to the hospital.