Minor girl found hanging from tree on outskirts of Lucknow

A six-year-old girl was found hanging from Madiaon near Lucknow on Sunday days after she was reported missing, Hindustan Times reported.

According to the report, the victim did not return home from school on March 15. Police said the girl’s father, a mason, had lodged an FIR the same night accusing his neighbour and his wife of kidnapping the child.

The child’s body was found near the neighbour’s house in their native Lodhkheda village of Maal.

The girl was in school uniform and her belt was found tied around her neck. The body’s condition suggested that she was killed immediately after her disappearance on March 15. The child’s father alleged that she was murdered after being raped but police have ruled out rape. The incident brought back the horrors of June 2014, when two teenage girls, both cousins, were found hanging from a tree. While the CBI said that the duo had committed suicide, a post-mortem examination conducted earlier, it was reported that the girls had been raped and died from strangulation due to being hanged while still alive. The parents have alleged the neighbours have a role to play in the child’s murder.

They went missing on the evening of 26 May, when they went out of their home and were alleged to have been abducted. It was alleged that the girls had gone into the fields because there was no toilet in their home.