Bhojpur superintendent of police Raj said that the accused has been admitted to a local hospital for treatment under police custody. “We are probing the case from all angles, including previous enmity with the girl’s family,” he told the media on his return from the spot.He said that the local residents told the police that the accused sexually assaulted the girl first and then beat her to death in his house. The SP said that a forensic team visited the spot and collected evidence.The victim’s family claimed that the accused had tied the girl’s body with a cot after killing her. “We found the body tied with a rope from a cot in a room,” the victim’s family said in a written complaint submitted to the Ara town police at the station. As the news about the murder of the girl after being sexually assaulted spread in the locality, a number of people assembled outside the accused’s house and thrashed him. However, he was rescued by the local police and subsequently admitted to a hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, the girl’s body has been handed over to the family after a post-mortem examination and an investigation has been initiated, the SP told this reporter over a call on Tuesday.
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