India, July 12 -- Lured with food, a seven-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped and murdered by two people at an under-construction building in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar extension. The rape and murder case has shocked the nation, weeks after a similar incident took place in West Bengal's Baruipur, where a 12-year-old girl was raped and drowned.

As reported by HT earlier, the police have arrested the two accused - one is a 22-year-old man, and the other is a 16-year-old boy.

Deputy commissioner of police Dhawal Jaiswal told HT that the crime was planned by the 16-year-old boy, who instigated the 22-year-old. The two accused also killed the girl to hide their identities.

Police added that the family of the victim was from Bihar and had been...