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JAIPUR: A Class 8 girl was found murdered in Chaksu on the outskirts of Jaipur on Wednesday. She had gone to school to appear for her exams and had gone missing after that, following which her family initiated a search. Her body was found on Thursday morning with stab wounds. Police said on Saturday that she was killed by a 10-year-old girl from the same school over a pen.

On Wednesday, the victim had gone to write her exam to school. A quarrel broke out in the classroom when the 10-year-old allegedly took the victim’s pen. During the heated argument, she hurled expletives at the victim, accusing her of stealing her pen. After the completion of examination, the victim went home, changed her uniform and decided to confront the girl. As soon as the victim reached the girl’s house, a scuffle broke between them. The girl attacked the victim with an iron rod, which left her bleeding heavily. However, the victim was conscious and managed to get up on her feet and threatened to inform the police.

Afraid, the girl took a sharp weapon from her house and attacked the victim. “She hit her about 19 times, leading to her death,” said an official.

The girl realised she had killed the other girl. She cleaned up the scene of crime and covered the body with a plastic sack. “When her mother reached home from her NREGA work in the evening, the girl informed her about the murder. The mother decided to cover up the crime,” the official said.

While the entire village had initiated a search for the victim, the daughter-mother due packed her body into a sack and threw it in a pond near their house. Late in night, the mother informed her husband that their daughter had killed the missing girl. “He also did not inform the police but schemed to cover up the crime,” the official said, adding that the man thought if body was to be found near their house, they may be suspected.

The couple then went to the pond and fished out the sack, took out the body and disposed it away from their house. On Thursday morning, the police discovered the body and sent it for the post-mortem.

DCP (South Jaipur) Yogesh Dadhich told TOI that the police have detained the minor, while arrested her father and mother for disposing of the body. “We found one earring on the body, while another one was missing. During the search operation, we found blood spots and missing pair of earring at her classmates’ house. It had become clear to us that she was murdered in the particular house,” he said.

The minor girl and her parents admitted to the crime, and that they had tried to destroy the evidence to help save their daughter from the arrest.

