Surat: 9-year-old girl's body with over 80 torture marks found; was raped, brutalised for 8 days, reveals post-mortem

The Surat Police has found body of a nine-year-old girl with 86 injury marks in the city on Saturday.

The police recovered the severely injured body of the girl near from a cricket ground in Bhestan area of Surat on April 6. After five-hour long postmortem, it was revealed that the girl was raped and tortured for at least eight days. She was strangled to death.

The girl has not been identified yet and none from her family has come forward to claim the body. It’s still not known who or how many people were involved in the heinous crime. The police are scouting the list of the missing persons.

Ganesh Govekar, Forensic Head, Civil Hospital, said, ‘The girl’s body had 86 injury marks including ones on her private parts. Samples have been taken for forensic test to ascertain whether she was drugged or not.’

Police inspector BK Jhala said, ‘Even after eight days, the parents of the girl are yet to be identified. The police also believe that she was murdered somewhere else and the dead body has been thrown here. The victim’s picture has been sent to the state police control room for identification process.’

He said Police have registered a case of rape and also booked the unidentified accused under The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. A reward of Rs 20,000 has been announced for anyone providing information about the girl or her family.