Police have arrested five people in connection with the gang rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Indian-administered Kashmir. Officials said the girl's stepmother told her son, 14, and three others to rape the victim in her presence.
They said the girl's body was found on Sunday in a jungle in Baramulla district. She was tortured and her body was burnt with acid, they added. The stepmother was allegedly upset as the girl was her father's favourite.
Mr Hussain(senior police officer) said the girl was killed with an axe after the gang rape. He said one of the accused, a 19-year-old man, "gouged out her eyes with a sharp knife and poured acid on her body."
Scrutiny of sexual violence has grown in India since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in the capital Delhi. The crime sparked days of protests and forced the government to introduce tougher anti-rape laws, including the death penalty.
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