Police find chopped body of minor girl in Udaipur, one arrested

Udaipur: A 20-year-old man allegedly murdered a minor girl, chopped her body into pieces and stuffed them in plastic bags here, police said on Sunday.

According to police, the possibility of the eight-year-old girl being raped before the murder has not been ruled out and the accused, a school dropout, is being interrogated.

The girl was missing since March 28. Her chopped body parts were found at an abandoned house in Mavli area on Saturday night, they said.

Some local residents had complained of a foul smell emanating from the abandoned house, police said, adding that the victim lived in the same neighbourhood. Superintendent of Police Vikas Sharma said the accused resided near the victim’s house.

The post-mortem was done at a Government Hospital. Police are probing the death of the child from other angles, including occult.

The villagers have demanded that the killers be caught and punished at the earliest. According to information, the girl’s father had filed a missing complaint on March 28.

The victim was a student of class IV in Government Higher Primary School.