New Delhi: The body of a 16-year-old Dalit girl was found in a field in the Akrabad area in Aligarh,with police saying that prima facie, it appears that she was strangled.The incident comes just weeks after the bodies of three minor Dalit girls were found in a field in Unnao district of the state.According to PTI, the 16-year-old girl had gone to the fields on Sunday afternoon to collect fodder for cattle but did not return. Later, her body was found in a field when her family members started searching for her, they saidPolice said prima facie it appeared that she was strangled.“The victim had gone out to get grass for fodder. The family and villagers began looking for her when she didn’t return home even after a few hours. Later they found her body in a field,” Muniraj G., the Aligarh senior superintendent of police, told NDTV.As the news of he death spread, irate villagers pelted stones at a police party which was trying to take the body for post-mortem, they said. An inspector was injured in the attack, police added.SSP Muniraj revealed that late on Sunday, senior police officials rushed to the spot and pacified the villagers, who then handed over the body to policemen.He said allegations that the victim was sexually assaulted are being probed. “Everything will be clear when the post-mortem report is received,” the SP told news agency PTI.In the Unnao case, three minor Dalit girls were found in a field. They too had gone to collect fodder, but were allegedly poisoned by a man whose advances one of the girls had rejected. While the two younger girls died, the third survived. Two persons, including a minor, have been arrested in that case.