Two eve-teasers held for death of a girl

Bhawanipatna: Two youths were arrested today in connection with the death of a minor girl after her decomposed body was recovered from a pond at Khaichuan in Kalahandi district.

The 14-year-old girl had gone missing on February 19 and her body was recovered yesterday, police said.

Superintendent of Police, Kalahandi Brijesh Rai said that the girl had earlier been a victim of eve-teasing by two youths and she informed her parents about them. Both the youths were arrested.

The post mortem report revealed that the girl was strangulated to death, he said.

—PTI