MP Woman Kills Toddler For Crying, Not Letting Her Sleep. Police Finds Body Under Sofa

The accused woman has been arrested and has been booked for murder, police said.

The accused woman has been arrested and has been booked for murder

New Delhi: A woman in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur allegedly strangled her two-year-old niece to death for crying and not letting her sleep, news agency PTI quoted police as saying. The incident took place in Rajiv Nagar area on Monday. The accused has been arrested, police said.

According to Hanumantal police station in-charge M Dwivedi, the family of the victim registered a complaint after she went missing on Monday afternoon. Initially, police scanned the CTV footage but to no avail. Later, on searching the house premises of her father, the toddler’s body was found under a sofa at her aunt’s house, police said. The accused lived in the same building as the victim’s father.

According to the PTI report, police said the toddler had gone to her paternal aunt’s room on Monday afternoon. After feeding her, the girl’s aunt asked her to go to her parents. However, when she refused, the accused initially slapped her. When the girl started crying, her aunt strangled her to death and hid her body under the sofa.

“Yesterday a man named Shakil Mansoori registered a complaint that his two-year-old daughter was missing. A search operation was conducted at their premises and later the body of the child was found on the first floor of Mansoori's house, where the child's aunt Afsana and her husband stay. When Afsana was interrogated, she admitted that the child came upstairs and Afsana asked the child to go down after feeding her but the child did not obey and she slapped the child,” Jabalpur ASP Priyanka Shukla told news agency ANI.

“When the child started crying, Afsana covered the toddler’s mouth and nose to stop her from crying and this led to her death. Then she hid the body under the sofa. A murder case could be registered in this case after the post-mortem report comes,” the ASP added.

The accused woman has been arrested and has been booked for murder, the police officer said.