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In this paper, a nonconforming interface penalty finite element method (NIPFEM) based on body-fitted meshes is explored for elliptic interface problems, which allows us to use different meshes in different sub-domains separated by the interface. A nonconforming finite element method based on rectangular meshes is studied and the supercloseness property between the gradient of the numerical solution and the gradient of the interpolation of the exact solution is proven for both symmetric NIPFEM and nonsymmetric NIPFEM. Then, the global superconvergence rate O(hi32) between the postprocessed numerical solution of NIPFEM and the exact solution is derived by using an interpolation postprocessing technique. 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