India has a grim record of sexual assaults on minors with more than 36,000 cases reported in 2016, according to latest available government data. A UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2014 said one in three rape victims in India was a minor. In this case, the girl's uncle, 40, has also been arrested and police are searching for the eldest brother after the body was found in the central state of Madhya Pradesh last week. "All the men [three brothers and the uncle] were involved in raping the girl and when she threatened to tell the police, they strangled her to death and chopped off her head and dumped the body." Sanghi said the autopsy had confirmed the victim was gang-raped and subjected to "unnatural sex."

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 20, 2019 12:56 UTC