Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Nov. 25 -- : A 12-year-old girl was found dead with marks on her neck in a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur, according to an official.

The deceased was identified as Pushpa alias Rajni, who according to the police, was mowing a field with her grandmother before being found dead in the sugarcane field.

S Anand, Superintendent of Police, Shahjahanpur, said on Thursday that the deceased's grandmother along with the villagers recovered her body after conducting a search in the village when the girl did not return to the field after keeping the mowed grass at her house.

The police suspected that the girl was strangled to death.

"Information was received about the recovery of a body of a 12-year-ol...