Kalyan, January 21: In a shocking incident, a 15-year old girl in Kalyan murdered a two-year-old kid to take revenge from the toddler’s mother. Reports inform that the accused had a dispute with the toddler’s mother a week ago which triggered her to take this extreme step. According to a report by TOI, the incident took place at Tulai village in Murbad taluka of Thane district on Saturday. The report further informs that the victim, identified as Anushka Jadhav, was at home with her two elder sisters when the incident took place while their parents were out for work. Mumbai: Rajasthan Girl’s Body Found in Malad’s Mind Space, 20-Year-Old Student Held for Murder.

According to a report by TOI, Vijay Vasave, in-charge of Murbad police station informed that when the girl was interrogated, she started giving different versions of the incident and finally broke down and confessed to killing the child to exact revenge on her mother. Mumbai Model Murdered by 19-Year-Old Student, Body Found in Suitcase.

The incident came into light when the elder sisters couldn’t find the toddler in the house. They then alerted their parents who came home. All of them started searching for Anushka, but to no avail. After failing to find her anywhere in the house and the surrounding areas, the family alerted local Murbad police and registered a kidnapping case. However, the autopsy report suggested the death of the toddler was caused due to strangulation.

When police began an investigation into the matter, they recovered the child’s body from the mezzanine floor of the house. Following the tragic incident, when people in the village were questioned, few villagers told Police that a minor girl had informed them that she had seen the child while she was on her way to the nearby forest.

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