Dead body of a 16- year-old girl was found at the Nirbhaya centre in Poojapura on Wednesday. 

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 The girl, hailing from Marthanadam in Tamilnadu, reached Nirbhaya Centre at Palakkad four months back after the Railway Police found her at the railway station there . A suspected victim of assault, she was shifted to Nirbhaya Centre at Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday based on a request from her mother. 

Police have registered a case of unnatural death. The body has been shifted to Medical College for postmortem. 

Communist Party of India-Marxist leader V Sivankutty MLA alleged that girls are sheltered at the centre without proper safety.