8-year-old girl murdered in Jhansi, one held

Jhansi: Blood-soaked body of an 8-year-old girl was found wrapped in a cloth on a vacant plot of land in Karguajee area of the city on Saturday morning. Her head was smashed by some heavy object.
Working quickly on the case, police later arrested the key accused, Sandeep Jain, 28, from MP where he had fled after committing the crime.
As per the complaint lodged by the father of the deceased Avtar Vanshkar, a labourer who lives in the locality with his family, his daughter had gone to fetch milk at 6.30 am but did not return.
After a long time when she did not return, Avtar went out to find her and saw some blood strains in a nearby vacant plot. On further probe, he found her body wrapped in a cloth. He immediately raised an alarm. After some time, police arrived along with the dog squad and forensic experts. The blood stains led police to an adjacent market place where some more blood stains were found.
“Within hours of investigation and statement of Avtar, it was established that the key accused is Sandeep, who by that time had absconded from the place. His brother Hero, who is the caretaker of the marketplace, was interrogated for leads. He told the police that he was working here for quite some time and lived in a room in the backyard of the marketplace,” police said.
A few months ago, his brother Sandeep came from Tikamgarh and started living with him.
DIG Jhansi range Jogendra Kumar, who also visited the crime scene, said: “We have arrested the main accused, Sandeep Jain, and are interrogating in relation to the crime. An FIR has been lodged against him under sections 302 and 201 of IPC and under SC/ST Act. We will also invoke NSA against him. The body of the deceased has been sent for postmortem. Once the report comes we will decide on the future course of action.”
On whether the girl was sexually assaulted or not, police stated that “anything could be conclusively said only after the postmortem report is received”.