Yet another gruesome murder has taken the life of a child. A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her 'adoptive father', buried in a drum filled with cement, which then was thrown into the Kasara Ghat. The drum and the girl's body were recovered by the Uttan Sagari police on Wednesday. The girl's mother lost her husband a year ago.

She has three more kids — two daughters and a son — and lives with her in-laws in Aurangabad. In June 2019, Prakash Rathod, her cousin, approached her saying he could take one of her daughters to Thane and enrol her in a school.