Srinagar: Authorities will exhume the body of nine year old minor girl who was raped and later murdered in Boniyar area of Uri in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district. 

The exhumation will be done to collect samples from the body, a police official said. 

“Forensic experts and doctors from Government Medical College Srinagar will collect the samples,” the police official said.

Senior Superintendent of Police Baramulla, Imtiyaz Hussain said that certain medico-legal aspects needed more clarifications and as such a team of experts will take samples of the body.

The nine year old girl was raped by her step brother after conspiring with her step mother and three others.

The girl was later brutally murdered and thrown in the forests.