Madhya Pradesh murder: The child had gone missing on Sunday afternoon, said police (Representational)
The naked body of a 13-year-old girl was found in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, after which a murder case was registered, police officials said on Monday.
The child, a native of Deori village under Jansinghnagar police station limits, had gone missing on Sunday afternoon and her family members, who mounted a search, found her naked body in a nearby field at 7 pm on the same day, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Bhavishya Bhaskar told news agency PTI.
A murder case has been registered and the post-mortem report is awaited, said Additional Superintendent of Police Mukesh Vaish.