Dead body of a minor girl found in Dumka, Jharkhand

The victim, identified as Sunil Rai, a resident of Mahro village under Jama police station of Dumka district, died on August 16, Officer-in-charge of Jama police station, Sanjay Malaviya said.

A mentally deranged

man, who was thrashed by the villagers after the body of a

minor girl was recovered from a railway station toilet on

August 15, has succumbed to his injuries in a hospital in

Dhanbad, police sources said today.

The victim, identified as Sunil Rai, a resident of

Mahro village under Jama police station of Dumka district,

died on August 16, Officer-in-charge of Jama police station,

Sanjay Malaviya said.

Malviya said the police have registered two separate

FIRs in connection with the killing as well as the violence

that followed after the recovery of the six-year-old girl's

body from the Barapalasi railway station premises on August

15.

Three policemen had sustained injuries when enraged

villagers clashed with the police after the body of a minor

a girl was recovered from a bathroom in Barapalasi Railway

station in Dumka district on August 15.

The villagers had also thrashed the mentally deranged

man, who was reportedly living in the station, accusing him of

killing the girl, police had said.

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