3-year-old girl, sleeping next to mother, kidnapped, gangraped, beheaded - head still missing

A chilling crime has surfaced in Jamshedpur where a 3-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, gangraped, and beheaded. The men had kidnapped her from a railway platform where she was sleeping next to her mother.

Three men have been arrested. Of which two men have raped the child and killed her. One of them, Rinku Sahu recently came out of jail after doing sentence for kidnapping and attempting to kill a child in 2015, reports NDTV.

Last Friday, the girl went missing. She was sleeping next to her mother in Tatanagar railway station. Her mother had gone with her partner. Her husband had divorced her 3 years earlier. She was in a relationship with this man for the past 3 months. Her partner reportedly asked her to not bring the child but she did anyway, reports Hindustan Times.

CCTV footage showed a man walking with a sleeping child and she reportedly suspected her partner and told the police. Police tracked down two men in their 30s who allegedly showed them the body.

The body of the child was in a plastic bag hidden behind the bushes 4km away from the station. It was found on Tuesday. The wounds in her body showed that she was brutalised. When police asked to identify the body, the mother fainted several times.

The child's head is still missing and sniffer dogs are used to find her head, said official.