UP: 12-year-old girl raped and murdered, body found hanging from tree

In a shocking incident reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, the corpse of a 12-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree after she was allegedly raped in a village, police said on Friday.

As maintained by the family members of the victim, she had gone to graze goats on Thursday evening and didn’t come back home. When the family members began looking for the victim, they recovered her dead body hanging from a tree, the family members alleged in their police complaint. Jamo SHO Angad Singh said the body has been sent for autopsy and the matter is being investigated.

"Someone killed my daughter and hanged her. Her body had injury marks and blood was there in her private parts," the girl's father alleged. "We don't have enmity with anyone. We suspect that she was raped before murder," he said.

In another incident, a 70-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a 21-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur district on Saturday, police said.

The accused has been taken into police custody, they said.

The elderly woman was allegedly raped by the youth on Wednesday while she was asleep. She was all by herself at home at the time of the incident, said Sub-Inspector Digvijay Singh, incharge of Bar police station.

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