Tension in Kolkata area as missing minor girl found dead
Preliminary investigation suggested that the minor was assaulted and then killed to destroy evidence.
Published Date - 4 February 2021, 01:37 PM
Kolkata: A nine-year-old girl was found dead with a slit throat under mysterious circumstance in Kolkata’s Jorabagan on Thursday morning, sparking tension in the area.
After police found the partly clothed body bearing multiple injury marks from a rooftop in the neighbourhood, senior police officers led by city Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Murlidhar Sharma visited the spot.
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Preliminary investigation suggested that the minor was assaulted and then killed to destroy evidence.
A forensic team and officers of Kolkata Police’s Homicide Cell were also at the spot to collect evidence.
The girl, a resident of north Kolkata’s Sovabazaar area, had come to visit her relatives at Jorabagan. After she went missing on Wednesday evening, her kin lodged a police complaint about her mysterious disappearance.
The area police had carried out a search in the neighbourhood to locate the missing minor.