A tale of teenage romance twisted into unimaginable brutality has horrified Bihar’s Purnea. A 16-year-old eighth-grader was gang-raped by her boyfriend and his cronies in a remote field, then murdered and her body suspended from a bamboo pole to pass as suicide. The atrocity occurred in Bakeniya village, Amour police limits.
The victim, hailing from Dagruva, vanished from her Holi-bustling home after promising quick return for chores. Days of fruitless searches through villages and peer inquiries led to her phone’s call logs, repeatedly linking to a schoolmate from Amour—the boy at the center of a secret two-year liaison.
Under intense grilling from family and villagers, the suspect admitted the plot. Boozing with pals by maize crops, he summoned her. The group pounced in seclusion, raping her collectively amid terror. Her defiance to inform parents sealed her fate: they choked her lifeless with cloth and grip, then artfully hung the body in bamboo groves.
Locals trapped him indoors for police handover, but he fled dramatically over walls. The grim scene yielded the corpse, postmortemed to affirm gang violation and homicide. Naming fugitives, probes intensify. This tragedy underscores perils of unchecked relationships and calls for robust policing in rural shadows.