Angry locals lynched a rapist in Madhepally in the Eluru mandal of the West Godavari district on Friday.
The person, identified as Suresh, was accused of raping and killing a 7-year-old girl.
The girl Lavanya, a student of Class I, went missing a couple of days back after going to a grocery shop to get some eggs. The girl's parents suspected their neighbor Suresh and asked him. But he feigned innocence.
However, foul smell began coming from inside his house, and when the people searched, they found the highly decomposed body of the girl sans clothes in an iron box. Enraged by this, the locals lynched him.
Suresh was known to behave in a perverted manner and had tried to molest his own daughter, due to which his wife and children had left him to live separately. Later, he was accused of sexually assaulting a physically handicapped person. (NSS)
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