{"id":108219,"date":"2021-01-12T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=108219"},"modified":"2021-01-12T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:09:40","slug":"shopkeeper-raped-13-year-old-girl-before-his-wife-helped-beat-her-to-death-and-hide-teens-body-in-a-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/shopkeeper-raped-13-year-old-girl-before-his-wife-helped-beat-her-to-death-and-hide-teens-body-in-a-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopkeeper \u2018raped 13-year-old girl before his wife helped beat her to death and hide teen\u2019s body in a bag\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SHOPKEEPER allegedly raped a girl before his wife helped beat her to death and hide the teen in a body bag.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The grocer, 45, is wanted by police after the 13-year-old was assaulted and strangled to death in Madhya Pradesh in central India.<\/p>\n


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Local reports suggest the shoper reportedly "lured" the girl to his home because attacking her. <\/p>\n

Hina Dabar, a spokesman for Dhanwad police, told Times of India that the girl had gone ot buy buscuits on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Mr Dabar said the teen was then pressured to go into a house and then raped. <\/p>\n

Then when she fought back, the grocer and his wife brutally beat and strangled her to death, he said. <\/p>\n

Mr Dabar said the couple tried to stash her body in a bag, and drag it out onto a terrace.<\/p>\n

The grocer was allegedly seen carrying the body by a neighbour, who then told the girl's family, according to local reports. <\/p>\n

The family was said to have confronted the grocer, who reportedly denied seeing their daughter. <\/p>\n

But they pushed their way into his home and found her sweater and slippers, Mr Dabar told local journalists.<\/p>\n

As a search party combed throught the property to look ofr her, the couple are then said to have fled the scene. <\/p>\n

The grocer was found hours later and arrested, but the search continues for the wife.<\/p>\n

The girl's body has been taken for a post-mortem.<\/p>\n

Rape and sexual violence has been under the spotlight in\u00a0India\u00a0since the\u00a02012 gang rape\u00a0and murder of a young woman in Delhi.<\/p>\n

Outrage over her death led to legislators passing tough new laws against sexual violence, including the\u00a0death penalty\u00a0for rape in some cases.<\/p>\n

One female reports a\u00a0rape\u00a0every 15 minutes in India and the state of Uttar Pradesh records rape almost every week, shocking statistics show.<\/p>\n

Earier this month, a woman was allegeldy gang raped by a priest and his aides at an Indian temple before she bled to death.<\/p>\n

Last November,\u00a0a female patient\u00a0in an Indian hospital was allegedly gang-raped by a doctor and staff before she was murdered.<\/p>\n

In October, an\u00a0Indian schoolgirl fell pregnant after allegedly being raped\u00a0by her blackmailing three cousins over a period of five months.<\/p>\n