Minor girl allegedly raped and murdered in Bengal’s Gaighata, relative detained

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Kolkata: In a tragic incident, a 17-year-old minor girl was found dead in the outskirts of a relative’s house at Gaighata in North 24 Parganas district on Sunday morning. Police suspect rape and murder and has arrested a relative.

As per reports, the girl attended a musical programme with her friends on the Saturday night in her locality, the family said. She was allegedly on the phone when she left the programme at midnight and did not come back.

The programme finished her family searched for her. She was found dead behind a relative’s house the following morning.

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Officers are now investigating the exact cause of death and whether there was any sexual assault, and looking into whether the victim had any accomplices. The body has been forensically examined and taken for a post mortem.

The case under the POCSO Act has been registered and the probe is in progress.

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