A 17-year-old girl, whose brother was murdered a few months back, was strangled near her house here on Sunday, police said.
The body of Huma Kausar, a resident of Gokulpuri area in east Delhi, was spotted by a passerby in the morning in bushes near her house, police said.
‘We received a call in this regard at around 10 in the morning by a passer-by who discovered the body after which a team of officers was sent to the spot. Immediately, the body was taken to a nearby hospital where the doctors pronounced her brought dead on arrival. The body has been preserved at the hospital mortuary for its post-mortem,’ said the police officer.
Kausar’s body bore strangulation marks on the neck and had injuries on the head, police said. As per an eye witness Ramesh, ‘The girl’s body was had a shirt on it but the jeans which was found lying nearby.’ The residents of the area alleged that the girl was first raped and then murdered by the accused.