A woman allegedly strangled her two-year-old niece to death for not allowing her to sleep in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/madhya-pradesh-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Madhya Pradesh</a>`s Jabalpur, police said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred in the Hanumantal police station limits and the accused has been arrested, officials said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Priyanka Shukla <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/jabalpur-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Jabalpur</a> said the victim, daughter of one Sakil Mansoori, went missing on Monday afternoon.
The family members of the girl filed a missing person report, he said, adding that police recorded statements of relatives of the girl.
Upon finding discrepancies in their statements, police searched the house and found the girl`s body under a sofa in the drawing room, SP Shukla added.
After a detailed investigation, police interrogated, Afsana, the girl`s aunt. "She confessed to her crime and told the police that the girl had come to her room on Monday afternoon," SP Shukla said.
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"I asked her to go out of my room and slapped her. She started to cry loudly. I covered her mouth and nose with my hand to silence her. Fearing her dead, I hide her body under the sofa," the accused told police.
The accused has been taken into custody, SP Shukla said, adding that they were waiting for a post-mortem report following which a case of murder will be registered against her.
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