Nagpur: A seven-year-old girl died of suffocation after she accidentally got locked inside a car belonging to State BJP president Nitin Gadkari in Mahal area in Nagpur, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place on Wednesday when Yogita Ashok Thakre, daughter of a domestic help entered Gadkari's car while playing outside his house, police said.
Yogita's body was recovered on Wednesday evening from the car which was parked outside his house, they said.
Police have registered a case of accidental death following a complaint lodged by the girl's father.
NO RAPE OR MURDER, SAY COPS
The girl's parents had reportedly claimed that the girl had been raped before being killed. The mystery was over as the post-mortem report revealed no foul play.
"The post-mortem report said: in the opinion of doctors performing autopsy, the cause of the death was due to smothering (suffocation)," Police Inspector R S Katole, told reporters on Wednesday evening.
"There were fresh external injury marks on her body," the police officer armed with the post-mortem report said while ruling out the rape and murder theory. "Any accidental death, we investigate with a murder angle," he told newspersons at Gadkari's residence.
Yogita's mother works as a domestic help in a house near where Gadkari lives.
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