Police in India have arrested six people in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who ultimately became the victim of a family feud.
According to Indian state media, the innocent girl was brutally raped and killed by her 14-year-old stepbrother and his three friends at the sickening request of her stepmother.
The horrific incident which occurred in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, tragically saw the innocent little girl lose her life after her father’s first and second wives became embroiled in a bitter feud.
It is believed the young girl was raped and killed after her father’s first wife hatched a plan to eliminate his daughter to whom he had with his second wife.
Police investigating the brutal case say the little girl’s badly mutilated body was found on Sunday September 2nd in woodland not far from her home.
They also say she had been subjected to a vicious gang-rape and had been strangled to death before being dumped in the area of woodland.
Officers investigating the case say the little girl had a number of head wounds which were the result of blunt force trauma which were sustained from a weapon believed to be an axe.
It is also reported that she had her eyes gouged out at the hands of her attackers, before they burnt her body with acid.
They added it is believed the girls stepmother orchestrated the attack as she believed the little girl was her ex-husbands favoured child.