A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped and then murdered at Dharmanagar in North Tripura district, police said on Monday.
The girl, a student of Class 9, received a phone call from a known person on Saturday evening and left her house, superintendent of police Manik Das told reporters. Dharmanagar is about 220 km from state capital Agartala.
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Her body with multiple injuries was recovered from an abandoned house on Link Road around Saturday midnight.
Police on Sunday arrested a person named Rajat Tanti (22), who “admitted” to police that he raped and murdered the girl, the SP said.
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