India police

NEW DELHI: Police on Monday widened an investigation to include the possible murder of a girl at a shelter in Bihar, where 29 young girls were allegedly raped and tortured. Police carried out a dig at the home, Seva Sankalp Samiti, which was run by a local non-profit organisation, after some of the girls who used to live there alleged that a girl had been murdered. “During the recording of their statements, 2-3 girls said that one girl was murdered and to verify that we did the digging today, but we did not find anything…

NEW DELHI: Indian police said Sunday they have arrested the main suspect in the gang rape and gruesome murder of a teenage girl, in the latest of several high-profile sexual assault cases in the country. The local village chief has also been detained while the 16-year-old victim's family have been given special police protection. Dhanu Bhuiyan was found at a relative's house where he was hiding after he and accomplices allegedly burned the girl alive Friday in a remote district of the eastern state of Jharkhand.…