A 16-year-old girl was found beheaded with her head doused in acid after claims she was raped in India.

Graphic pictures reveal the decomposing body with a mutilated chest that police found on Jan. 6, eight days after she went missing.

The girl’s family have claimed the girl was raped and have criticized cops over their perceived delay in acting.

But a senior police officer has suggested the girl was killed in an “honor killing.”

The detective claimed that the girl’s mother and sisters said she had returned home on Dec. 31, three days after she went missing, NDTV reports.

But police are saying that the girl’s father sent her away with a man known to the family at around 10 p.m. the same night.

An autopsy will determine whether the girl was raped and how she died.

Her death has sparked mass protests near Bihar’s Gaya where she went missing, 70 miles from the state capital of Patna.

Hundreds turned out for candlelit marches this week holding posters of alleged victim “Anjana.”

Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India.

According to the most recent data available, 106 rapes were recorded every single day in 2016. Four of every 10 victims were minors.

In 94.6 percent of the reported cases, perpetrators were found to be the victim’s relatives — including brothers, fathers and sons.