The girl’s uncle, who was at the government hospital in Budaun where she was being examined on Friday afternoon, said she was snatched at 8 p.m. Wednesday by the officers, who often kept watch over her village, Prahladpur. Her mother called him and the head of the village, and the family took the girl to the district headquarters to report the case the next morning.

“These two cops are the area constables,” said Sudhir Pathak, the head of the village. “They used to come to our village quite frequently. They would frequently sit in front of the girl’s house.”

The girl was at home with her mother on Wednesday night, while her father was out of town for eye surgery, her uncle said.

The district of Budaun came under intense national scrutiny in May after the bodies of two girls were found hanging from a mango tree. The family initially said the girls had been raped and murdered by a group of men abetted by local police officers, and the police said they had confirmed the rape. But in November, India’s top investigating agency announced after an inquiry that there had been no rape and that the girls had committed suicide.