CCTV Footage Shows Man On Bicycle Before He Killed Bengal Schoolgirl
NDTV
The body of the girl, who had left home for a coaching class but never returned, was recovered from a secluded area on Saturday morning.
The man who has been accused of kidnapping and murder of a schoolgirl in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district was seen inside a shop before he committed the crime on Friday, CCTV footage showed. The 19-year-old, in a pink shirt, was seen talking to a man in the shop before leaving on his bicycle. The police earlier confirmed the accused picked up the minor victim on a bicycle.
The body of the girl, who had left home for a coaching class but never returned, was recovered from a secluded area, about a kilometre away from the Mashishamari police outpost on Saturday morning.
The family of the victim, a class 4 student, filed a complaint at Joynagar police station on Friday after she didn't return from her class. "When her father returned from his shop at 8 pm, he got to know that her 10-year-old daughter hadn't returned home. He then went to Mashishamari police camp before going to Joynagar police station to lodge a case," said South 24 Parganas, Baruipur SP Palash Chandra Dhali.