A minor Dalit girl was allegedly raped and murdered in the National Capital on 1 August.
The four suspects – Radhe Shyam, a priest, Laxmi Narayan and Kuldeep Kumar, who worked with him, and Mohd Salim, a local – had allegedly also forcefully cremated the 9-year-old girl, without her family's consent.
Neighbours said that even before her parents could have understood what had happened, the child's body was already 'half-cremated'. By the time the cremation fire was doused, only parts of her legs and scalp could be retrieved, which has made it difficult to conduct a post-mortem examination.