8-Year-Old Girl Strangled To Death UP Village, Police Suspect Rape

The girl was out on Sunday morning, according to the villagers, with her grandmother to graze goats in their fields on Sunday morning.

An eight-year-old girl was strangled to death in a village in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Her body was found in a sugarcane field late at night in the Kheri district, about 130 km from Lucknow, hours after she went missing. In the murder case, the police have now also added rape charges, and those under the stringent POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act). She was allegedly strangled with the clothes she was wearing, police said. The girl was out on Sunday morning, according to the villagers, with her grandmother to graze goats in their fields on Sunday morning. By afternoon, the girl said she was going home. When she did not reach home by evening, the family started looking for her.