A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was brutally killed in northern India following a family dispute over an unpaid loan, triggering widespread condemnation and outrage across the country.
The toddler was kidnapped in Uttar Pradesh state’s Aligarh district on May 31, and her body was found in a garbage dump near her home three days later, local police said.
Police are looking into torture allegations after her family alleged that she was strangled to death and her eyes gouged out, the IANS news agency reported.
The District Police Chief, Akash Kulhary said that they had arrested two men, who were also neighbours and involved in the loan dispute with the victim’s grandfather, for the murder.
One of the suspects had taken a loan of 720 dollars from the girl’s grandfather and still owed him 10,000 rupees over which both fought two days before the child was kidnapped, broadcaster NDTV reported.
(NAN)
