In yet another incident, the body of a minor tribal girl was found hanging from a tree in the Badtalla village under Kathikund police station area of Jharkhand’s Dumka on Wednesday.
The girl’s body was recovered in a decomposed state from a Palash tree in the village forest. The police have taken accused Ram Kumar Dehri into custody as he has been allegedly found having connections with the girl. The police have been interrogating him.
“The body of a minor girl was found hanging from a tree. We have registered a case of murder. The main accused Ram Kumar Dehri has been taken into custody in the case. Further investigation is underway,” said Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Noor Mustafa Ansari in Jharkhand’s Dumka Sadar.
Following the incident a political battle erupted in the state in which former Jharkhand minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lois Marandi met the relatives of the deceased and questioned law and order of Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s government.
According to the police, the deceased girl was a student of class 10 in a school in Shikaripada and was reported missing on 7 October.
The police said that the matter is related to a love affair and the girl’s relatives have expressed suspicion about Ram Kumar Dehri.
The girl used to live with her grandmother, brother and sister in a rented house in Shikaripada and as per her relatives, she suddenly went missing after the holidays of Durga Puja.
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