17-yr-old girl found murdered in Unnao; Accused held

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Times News Network
Kanpur: A 17-year-old girl was found murdered near an agricultural field in a village under Makhi police station in Unnao district on Sunday morning.
Barely few hours after the crime, police arrested the accused, identified as Sushil for being allegedly involved in the murder.
The family members of the girl told police that the girl's boyfriend was the prime suspect as the two were not on good terms for the past few months.“We have arrested Sushil and questioned him to ascertain the motive for committing the crime. He said that after a brief courtship, she started avoiding him and to teach her a lesson, he killed her,” said a police official.
“On Sunday morning Sushil hid in the nearby fields, and as soon as the girl left her house, he waylaid her near the field and after an altercation attacked her with a machete on her head and other vital body parts, and fled after the incident”, said a police official. The locals spotted the body and informed her family before alerting the police. Police rushed to the spot and shifted her body to mortuary”, the police official added.
The girl has been in a relationship with Sushil for the past few months. But their relationship had recently turned sour over some issue and the girl was trying to come out of it, police said.
Sushil had allegedly been pressurising the girl to continue the affair. There are reports that he had threatened her to harm her and her family if she dared to walk away, police said.
“An FIR has been lodged under relevant sections of the IPC. We have arrested the accused and his interrogation questioning is underway. The body has been sent for the post-mortem examination and forensic examination of the spot was conducted. We are taking statements of the kin of the accused. Cops have been posted at the houses of both the victim and the accused,” said SP (South) Dhawal Jaiswal