13-Year-Old Raped, Strangled In UP; Cops Deny Eyes Gouged, Tongue Cut

Sunday, 16 August 2020Newsdesk

A 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district and her body found in a sugarcane field, the police said on Saturday, in yet another horrific case that has emerged from the state in recent days. Two men from her village have been arrested. She had been strangled, her eyes were gouged out and her tongue cut, the girl's father said. The incident took place on Friday, around 130 km from Lucknow, in a village close to the Nepal border. Her body was found in the fields of one of the accused.

New Delhi, 16 August 2020

As per news report of NDTV, the UP Police said the post-mortem report that came out on Sunday night does not show her eyes were gouged out or tongue cut. The police said the autopsy mentioned rape and strangulation. "He eyes were not gouged and tongue was not cut. The claim is not true. There is nothing in the post-mortem report to suggest this. There were scratches near the eyes, likely due to the sharp sugarcane leaves where the body was found," SP of Kheri Satendra Kumar said.

Source -NDTV