14-Year-Old Killed With Bricks, Stones In Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi

October 1, 2020

14-year-old girl, belonging to the Scheduled Castes, was found murdered in Bhadohi in eastern Uttar Pradesh today.
The police said her head was bashed in with bricks. The death comes as the country is reeling from shock over the case from Hathras – the brutal attack on a 20-year-old and the aftermath of her death, the 2 am cremation of her body by the police while her family was kept locked up.
As the Hathras police came under scrutiny, their counterparts in Bhadohi said investigations are on into the teen’s death.
The girl, the police said, had failed to return when she had gone to the fields to relieve herself. Her brother found the body when he went to lok for her, the police said.
The police suspect she had been raped.

It is not yet known who the attackers are, the police said, adding that they are pursuing all leads.
The death of the teen comes two days after the woman from Hathras died in a Delhi hospital. Her horrific injuries and the alleged multiple police slips in the case has evoked outrage across the country.
The matter took a political turn today as Congress’s Rahul Gandhi was detained by the state police on his way to Hathras to meet the family.
Rahul Gandhi alleged that he was pushed to the ground and lathi-charged when he and Priyanka Gandhi were marching on the highway after their convoy was stopped by Uttar Pradesh policemen. They were later released and taken back to Delhi.