The body has been sent for post-mortem and a probe is on, he said. The villagers protested over the incident by blocking the road and demanded strict action against the guilty.
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Muzaffarnagar: The body of a 23-year-old man, who had been missing for a day, was found at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Wednesday. The man, Arun Kumar, was found dead in a field in Unn village Tuesday, Jhinjhana Station House Officer OP Choudhary said.
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The body has been sent for post-mortem and a probe is on, he said. The villagers protested over the incident by blocking the road and demanded strict action against the guilty.
In another incident, a six-year-old girl was found dead near a railway track in Hyderabad in a suspected case of rape and murder, police said. The girl was reported missing by her parents Thursday and her body was found near the railway track during a search by the police.
"It appears that she was raped and killed," a police official said. Some suspects were being questioned in connection with the case, he added. The girl's parents lodged a complaint with police in Alwal locality that she was missing.
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