Matma Singh
April 2008
A 12 year old girl was beaten to death by her father and uncles. The victim’s grandmother, Natho (60), said that her sons killed Mamta after they found a boy, Pintu (14), her schoolmate, in her room late on Friday night. They beat her to death, and the father Jagdish Singh and his brother Soni Singh then allegedly burnt her body and dumped it in a well. The body has yet to be found.
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