Muzaffarpur: CBI confirms girl was killed

Now the CBI will have to deal with questions of who kidnapped the girl and who planted her skeleton in a nullah near her house.

More than two years after 12-year-old Muzaffarpur girl Navaruna was kidnapped from her home, the CBI said the girl was killed soon after her abduction. A CBI team that visited Navaruna’s parents on Thursday revealed that a DNA sample of a skeleton found near the girl’s house in November 2012, matched those with her parents’ DNA.

The case was handed over to CBI this March after the girl’s parents were not satisfied with probe by the Criminal Investigation Department and refused to give their DNA sample.

Navaruna was kidnapped on the night of September 18, 2012 and it was suspected that land mafia was involved. The girl’s parents had agreed to sell their ancestral home, worth over Rs 1 crore, in Muzaffarpur, rejecting the offer of the land mafia, which also wanted the house. The state police’s probe, however, had been inconclusive on involvement of the land mafia.

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Navaruna’s father Atulya Chakavarty said, “It has been painful end to our wait of over two years. We had been hoping that she was alive. It is all over now,” he said.

Now the CBI will have to deal with questions of who kidnapped the girl and who planted her skeleton in a nullah near her house.

Santosh Singh

Santosh Singh is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express since June 2008. He covers Bihar with main focus on politics, society and governance. Investigative and explanatory stories are also his forte. Singh has 25 years of experience in print journalism covering Bihar, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. ... Read More

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