Maha: Minor girl found killed in agri farm

A five-year-old girl was found killed with her head smashed on an agriculture farm in Linga village in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Sunday, police said.

The deceased was missing since December 6 afternoon.

"The body of the girl with a serious head injury was found in the agriculture farm on Sunday afternoon where she lived with her parents," a Kalmeshwar police station officer said, adding that prima facie someone smashed her head with a stone.

He said police are awaiting postmortem report to ascertain the exact cause of the death and to know whether the girl was sexually assaulted.

A case of murder has been registered under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

A police official said that parents of the girl live on the one side of the agriculture farm while her grandmother on the another side, with a small path connecting both the houses. Her parents work as farm labourers.

"The girl went missing on Friday evening. Initially, her parents assumed that she ...