16-year-old girl gang-raped by 4 teens, found stabbed to death days later in Delhi

The girl knew one of the suspects, a 17-year-old, and had gone to meet him on Saturday evening.

Four teenagers have been apprehended for the gang-rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl whose body was found stabbed and hidden beneath leaves in a field in north Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar, police said on Thursday.

Police said Shivam Ganesh (19) was arrested in connection with the crime. His accomplices, the three minors aged 17 and 16, have been taken into custody. The two knives used by the suspects and the clothes that they allegedly wore at the time of the crime have been seized at their instance.

The girl, a school dropout who was living on her own and searching for work to help support her family, was found dead on September 13. Police said the body had about six to eight stab wounds.