{"id":325478,"date":"2020-08-16T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325478"},"modified":"2020-08-16T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T08:13:40","slug":"13-year-old-girl-raped-and-killed-in-uttar-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/13-year-old-girl-raped-and-killed-in-uttar-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old girl raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-301486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/crime-scene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene.jpg 711w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-696x476.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/>A 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Lakhimpur Kheri district, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victim\u2019s body was found in a sugarcane field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police have arrested two men from the village in connection with the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The girl&#8217;s father said his daughter was strangled. He has also alleged that the girl&#8217;s body was found with her eyes gouged out and tongue cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place on Friday in a village close to the Nepal border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police said the girl\u2019s post-mortem report has confirmed rape and strangulation. However, the report did not suggest that the victim\u2019s eyes were gouged out or tongue was cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The girl had gone missing on Friday afternoon and the father said they went out looking for her everywhere when she did not return for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Eventually the father said, \u201cwe found her in the sugarcane field with her eyes gouged out. Her tongue was cut, and she was strangled with a dupatta.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati condemned the incident and called it &#8216;extremely shameful&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;What is the difference between the governments of the SP and the present BJP if such incidents keep happening?&#8221; she asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The rape of a Dalit minor in Pakariya village of Lakhimpur Kheri, UP and her brutal killing is extremely sad and shameful. What is the difference between the SP and the present BJP government if such incidents keep happening? The government should take strict action against the culprits of Kheri along with Azamgarh,\u201d Mayawati tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Lakhimpur Kheri district, police said. The victim\u2019s body was found in a sugarcane field. The police have arrested two men from the village in connection with the case. The girl&#8217;s father said his daughter was strangled. He has also alleged that the girl&#8217;s body was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[13295,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325485,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325478\/revisions\/325485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}