Godda , The beheaded body of a 12-year-old girl was found outside her residence in Jharkhand’s Godda district on Thursday morning, police said.
The incident took place at Dadua village in Lalmatia police station area. “Her parents and the villagers found her headless body outside the house this morning. Taking the child, who was sleeping at home with her parents at night and then carrying out such a heinous act presents a terrifying picture of Jharkhand’s deteriorated law and order situation. He alleged that crimes against women and children are continuously rising in the state.
The girl’s severed head was recovered from a farmland, around 500 metres from her house, following an intensive search operation, a police officer said. Marandi, in a social media post, said, “The brutal murder of a 12-year-old innocent girl is an extremely heart-wrenching and horrifying incident.
Leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Assembly, Babulal Marandi, said the “heart-wrenching” incident presents a terrifying picture of the deteriorated law and order situation in the state. Later, her head was recovered from a farmland in the village following a search operation,” Lalmatia police station in-charge Roshan Kumar said.
“An investigation has been initiated to ascertain the motive behind the murder and efforts are on to nab the culprits,” Kumar said.
