8-year-old girl’s body found in lake in MP’s Jabalpur district, irate villagers torch liquor shop

Residents of a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district set ablaze a liquor shop after the body of an 8-year-old girl was found in a lake, a police official has said.

Irate villagers, including the mother of the victim, alleged she was raped, murdered and her body thrown into the lake by a person or group of persons who had liquor at the vend, which was set on fire on Tuesday night, the official said.

“The girl’s body was found on Tuesday night. A short post-mortem suggests she was physically assaulted,” Jabalpur (Rural) Additional Superintendent of Police Sonali Dubey told PTI over the phone.