New Delhi:

A woman had buried her daughter 10 months ago in the Faridabad house they were living in. A complaint from the father, living in Saudi Arabia, led the cops to their home and a search followed, leading to an exhumation. The recovered body has been sent for postmortem.

Parveena was 17 years old. Her mother, Anitha Begum, has been taken into police custody.

The cops say that the father, Tahir, emailed them about her missing daughter. Asked how it took him that many months to complain, the cops said the man was not on good terms with his wife.

Anitha begum denies that she killed her daughter, telling cops that the girl died by suicide. She, however, admitted to the cops that she buried her in the house. The woman said she feared that the news of her suicide will bring a bad name to the family and buried her with help from two people.

“I did not kill her. She had affairs and used to run away. We had locked her up. And we slept. She died by suicide. Fearing a bad name, we buried her in the house. It was a big mistake, I admit it,” said Anita Begum.

The cops say further investigation will begin once the postmortem results are in.

(With inputs from Vinod Mittal)

New Delhi:

A traffic policeman was dragged by a speeding vehicle after requesting the driver’s documents in Haryana’s Faridabad. The incident took place at the Ballabhgarh bus stop area and was captured on video, which has since gone viral on social media.

According to the police, the episode unfolded last evening when a driver, allegedly drunk, obstructed traffic by parking his car in the middle of the road to pick up passengers. A traffic sub-inspector approached the driver, asking for his vehicle documents and preparing to issue a challan. This routine check quickly escalated into a heated dispute.

Eyewitnesses recounted that as the sub-inspector leaned in through the driver’s door to examine the papers, the driver suddenly hit the accelerator. The officer was dragged a few metres, clinging to the speeding vehicle before the car came to a halt. Onlookers and other traffic personnel quickly surrounded the vehicle and rescued the officer.

The police have identified the driver and have vowed to take strict action against him.

Faridabad:

The police have arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old boy here in a bid to demand ransom from the parents and repay his debt, officials said on Saturday. The police identified the accused as Vishal, a medical store operator and a resident of the housing board colony, sector 62 Ballabgarh, they said.

During the investigation, the police found that Vishal killed Kush, a student of class eight, by overdosing him with an intoxicant which he gave to render him unconscious, officials said.

He then dumped Kush’s body near the Agra canal, which the police recovered on Friday, they said. According to police, Umesh Chand, Kush’s father, filed a complaint reporting that his son had been missing since Thursday evening. He told the police that Kush had gone on his bicycle around 6.30 pm to bring some ice from a neighbouring shop.

However, when Kush did not return, Chand, with some locals, began searching for him but could not trace him. They then examined the CCTV footage and found that Kush had passed Vishal’s home some time ago, Chand said.

They searched Vishal’s residence and found Kush’s bicycle on his terrace. Following this, they handed over Vishal to the police, Chand added. During interrogation, Vishal confessed that he had kidnapped Kush to demand ransom from his parents and repay his debt. He injected Kush with an intoxicant but he died due to overdose, a senior police officer said.

Vishal told the police that he could not ask for ransom as Kush had died. So he dumped his body near the canal, the officer said.

The body was handed over to the family after post-mortem. Further investigation is underway, he added.

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Faridabad:

The dead body of a newborn boy was found impaled and stuck on a grill in the quiet Haryana village of Ajronda late Friday night. According to the police, a person threw the newborn over a wall before it got skewered on the spiked fence. 

The body was discovered by local residents this morning, much to their shock and disbelief. The body of the newborn was carefully removed from the grille and subsequently transported to the Badshah Khan Civil Hospital in Faridabad for a post-mortem examination.

According to the police, the autopsy will determine whether the child was intentionally killed before being discarded or if the death occurred as a result of being pierced by the grill.

The police are examining surrounding CCTV footage in the hopes of identifying and locating the individuals responsible for the crime. 

“Parents are guilty,” alleged the shocked residents of Ajronda, with some even suggesting the death penalty for those responsible for the baby’s gruesome death. 

Further investigation in the matter is underway, police said.