By Lavanya R
In a heart-wrenching incident, a vibrant young life was tragically cut short in Puducherry. An innocent nine-year-old girl who went missing on March 2 met a terrible fate and was found lifeless in a drain near her home in Muthialpet a few days later. The community was in utter disbelief and outrage as the news of his brutal murder spread like wildfire.
Two suspected persons have been arrested in the case of kidnapping, raping and brutally killing a nine-year-old Dalit girl. According to the information given by the police, the authorities have been arrested two men, Vivekandan (56) and Kaka (alias) Karunas (19), in connection with the murder of the girl, and have launched an operation.
The horrifying discovery of a young child’s remains shook the community to its core. Despite securing CCTV footage from the locality, the Muthialpet police found no evidence of her leaving the area.
On March 5, the child was found partially decomposed in a nearby drain, 72 hours after the complaint was filed, shedding light on her gruesome murder. The child’s body, wrapped in a bedsheet-like material and with her hands and legs tied using a coir thread, was found by neighbors and police just meters away from her house.
A special investigation team, supervised by Puducherry DIGP Brijendra Kumar Yadav and headed by Senior Superintendent of Police Kalaivanan, has been formed in response to the incident.
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