The body of a nine-year-old girl who had been raped was found on Tuesday in a field on the outskirts of this Uttar Pradesh capital, police said.
The daughter of a brick kiln worker from Bihar had gone to see a 'nautanki' (play) near her home in Sirsodhi village in Barabanki district but did not return, Lucknow's Inspector General of Police (IG) Subhash Chandra told IANS.
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The family looked for the girl all over but in vain. Her body, with wounds all over, was found just as they were planning to lodge a complaint with the police.
Chandra said prima facie it was a case of murder after rape.
"The body has been sent for autopsy and we are trying to map the movement of suspicious persons from the village," an official said.
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