Teacher's Chilling Confession After Mutilated Schoolgirl's Body Found Stuffed in Sack
A 12-year-old girl vanishes en route to school, only for her dismembered remains to surface nearly a month later, leading to her accused teacher's arrest in West Bengal's Birbhum
In a gruesome discovery that has sent shockwaves through West Bengal's rural heartland, the decomposed and mutilated body of a 12-year-old schoolgirl—missing since late August—was unearthed from a sack abandoned in a remote village, with her school's teacher now in custody after allegedly confessing to her abduction, murder, and disposal.
The nightmare unfolded on Tuesday night when police, acting on a tip-off, located the bloodstained sack in a secluded spot in Kalidanga village, Birbhum district. Inside lay the fragmented remains of the Class 7 student, who had vanished on the morning of August 22 after leaving her Nellore home for school. "She never returned that day, despite exhaustive searches across the area. Last night, we found the sack—and her body—in a godforsaken corner of the village," a senior police officer revealed to PTI, his voice heavy with the weight of the atrocity.
The breakthrough came swiftly after the girl's distraught parents filed a formal complaint, detailing repeated instances of inappropriate touching by Manoj Kumar Pal, a physics teacher at her school. The mother had earlier verbally alerted authorities about the harassment, which the child had tearfully confided to her just days before disappearing. "Suspecting his involvement, we zeroed in on the teacher. Hours of intense interrogation cracked him—he admitted to luring her away, killing her, and callously chopping up her body to hide the crime," the officer added.
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As the investigation deepens, forensic teams have rushed the body parts for urgent post-mortem analysis to determine if sexual assault preceded the murder—a possibility hanging like a dark cloud over the probe. "We're leaving no stone unturned to uncover the full extent of this monstrosity," the officer affirmed, vowing a watertight case under charges of kidnapping, murder, and potential POCSO violations.
The revelation has ignited outrage in Birbhum, where communities are rallying for justice and demanding stricter safeguards in schools to protect vulnerable children from predators in positions of trust. Local leaders have called for immediate counseling support for the shattered family and a review of teacher vetting processes, while women's rights groups decry the systemic failures that allowed the abuse to fester unchecked.
This tragedy, echoing a string of disturbing child safety lapses in the state, underscores the urgent need for vigilance and reform. As Pal faces the gallows of public scorn and legal reckoning, the tiny village of Kalidanga grapples with a loss that no community should ever endure.
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