By: Eastern Eye Staff
Indian police Thursday (13) arrested a key suspect in the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl near the hill resort of Shimla, shocking a small community where such brutal violence is rare. The discovery of the 16-year-old’s bruised and naked body has triggered outpourings of grief and anger in Himachal Pradesh, a northern state with some of India’s lowest rates of sexual violence. An autopsy confirmed the girl — whose body was found in a forest two days after she was allegedly kidnapped on her way home from school — was gang raped and murdered by strangulation. She sustained…
You do not have access to this content. You need to subscribe.