After the victim's father claimed that the girl's body was cremated without an autopsy under pressure from a local Trinamool Congress panchayat leader, an India Today team found the crematorium was being run illegally.
Special Public Prosecutor Dinesh Kumar Uike said that on November 13, 2018, the convict, Deepak took her on the pretext of coaching as her father asked him and his associate to find out coaching classes. Deepak took her to his relative’s house, he beat her up and raped her.