India, Sept. 19 -- As Delhi Police found a body in a heavily mutilated state earlier this week in the national capital's Swaroop Nagar area, they initially assumed that it belonged to a man, only to later find out it was a teen girl who was raped and murdered.

A girl, believed to be 16-year-old, was gang-raped and murdered by a group of four teenagers and her body was found dumped in a field in outer Delhi's Swaroop Nagar.

What made the body's identification difficult were visible skeletal parts and a missing arm.

"The skull and ribcage were visible and the right arm was cut off. We couldn't figure out whether it was a man or a woman; it appeared more to be of a middle-aged man," an investigator said on condition of anonymity.

As stat...