Overview
- The six-year-old, who vanished Thursday evening while playing near her shelter, was found during a police search in a eucalyptus grove near Electronic City after her family filed a missing-person complaint on Friday.
- Investigators say early evidence points to abduction and strangulation, and a post-mortem at St. John’s Medical College Hospital will determine if sexual assault occurred.
- Police have registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, a law that governs crimes against minors and mandates forensic steps, and they have formed special teams to track suspects.
- Officers are testing several motives including personal enmity, and they are scrutinizing whether someone known to the family may have lured the child from her home area.
- Reports say the body was found nude and the face disfigured, details that police have noted but left to forensic confirmation, while the case highlights risks faced by migrant families living in temporary shelters on the city’s edge.