The blood-soaked body of the six-year-old was found in a pit in Haryana at 2 pm on Sunday. The 6 year old is the daughter of an employee of Congress leader Nirmal Singh.
She was found with her throat slit, sexual assault is suspected, police said.
A case has been filed under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC and Section 6 of the POSCO Act.
The body was found near the minister’s farm in the mining zone of Khizrabad, where the victim’s father Magan Singh, who hails from Gumla in Jharkhand, works as a labourer.
He said his daughter, who went missing at 1 pm on Saturday, was last seen playing near the farm. Her body was found in a pit in the nearby mining zone.
The body has been kept at the Civil Hospital mortuary.
-PTC News