Her body was later recovered from the house of the accused late after midnight. Raju, the accused reportedly belonged to the same neighbourhood.
The accused was suspected of having lured the girl by offering chocolates. At the time, the minor was playing near the house.

The demand for the death penalty or championing extra-judicial killings of the accused arises from a sense of disgust, need for revenge and not necessarily from a need to create a safe society for women and children.

The recent Hyderabad encounter and our reaction to it has raised a lot of questions, which we as a nation need to pay heed to.

There are things we all can do on a daily basis without too much effort or time that will in some way enable girls to feel stronger, men to feel more compassionate and create some change in the mindset of both.

The country is outraged at Priyanka Reddy’s rape and murder. Why does India fail her daughters so often?

We women pay for our sexual safety with time, money, energy and mental peace, something that no one talks about. But then even that is not enough to keep us safe.