The BJP on Wednesday suspended its leader Aditya Raj Saini from the party and the Uttarakhand government removed him from the OBC commission chairman's post, a day after Haridwar police registered a Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act case against him and his associate Amit Saini.

The mother of a 13-year-old deceased girl told the police on Tuesday that her daughter was taken away from their house in Bahadarabad of Haridwar district on June 23 by Amit, who the family knew.

"Amit didn’t tell us that he needed her help. We trusted him because he was known to us. After my daughter didn’t return home late in the night, I called Amit and he said she would soon return home but she didn’t. We found her body along the Haridwar-New Delhi Highway the next day,” she said.

On Wednesday, she told reporters: "While searching for my daughter, I met Aditya Raj Saini because I knew Amit used to live with him as they are relatives. The way Aditya Raj behaved with us was strange. He threatened us against going to the police. Later, we heard from common acquaintances that Amit had taken my daughter to Aditya Raj’s house. Anybody could say after seeing her body that she was brutalised before being killed.”

Haridwar superintendent of police Swatantra Kumar Singh said: "There is tension in the village. We have deployed forces there. We have also filed a case based on the complaint and waiting for the post-mortem report. It would be crucial in arresting the criminals."