In a spine-chilling crime that has shaken Bihar’s Purnea district, a 16-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped, murdered, and her body hanged from a bamboo bush to mimic suicide. The horrific incident unfolded in Bakeniya village under Amour police station, where the eighth-grade student from Dagruva area had been missing for two days.
The girl’s body was discovered hanging in a bamboo thicket following a tip from a fellow student, who was also her lover and has now been arrested. Police investigations revealed a two-year romantic relationship between the victim and the accused boy from Amour. On the day of the crime, amid Holi preparations at her home, the girl stepped out on some errand and never returned.
Her family grew frantic, searching nearby villages and questioning friends, but to no avail. Scrutinizing her phone led them to repeated calls from the suspect’s number. Confronting the boy under village pressure, he confessed to a nightmarish sequence of events.
The boy had been drinking with friends near a maize field when he lured the girl there. Once she arrived, his accomplices joined, and they gang-raped her after threats. When she vowed to tell her family, panic set in. They strangled her with her dupatta and hands, then hoisted her body onto a bamboo to stage a suicide.
Villagers briefly detained the main accused in a house, but he escaped using a ladder while police arrived. Officers recovered the body for postmortem, confirming the rape and murder. The prime suspect named his fleeing friends, and a manhunt is underway. The family received the body after autopsy, demanding swift justice in this barbaric act that exposes deep societal failures.