Girl's body found hanging from tree

The body of a 17-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree at a village here, police said today.

The victim's father had lodged a complaint at the Khanpur Police Station against two persons, residents of the village, after three-days his daughter went "missing", they said.

The minor girl's body was found last evening in a decomposed state. She had gone missing on March 13, police said.

The postmortem report has stated strangulation as reason for death , Circle Officer Chitranjan Chauhan said.

The matter is being investigated. No one has been arrested yet, he said.