Girl, 8, Strangled In UP Village, Police Suspect Rape
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 Kheri district, about 130 km from state capital Lucknow, hours after she went missing. In the murder case, the police have now also added rape charges, and those under the stringent POCSO Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) based on the injuries found on her body.
