Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- Two days after a 14-year-old girl was found murdered in a field in central Kashmir's Ganderbal, her elder sister has been detained for the murder, police said.

As per the police, the girl killed her sister in a "fit of rage" after a "minor" altercation. Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested the 17-year-old girl for the murder of the Class-7 student after the two siblings entered into an altercation over some "minor" issue, said Khalil Poswal, senior superintendent of police, Ganderbal. She has been shifted to a juvenile observation facility in Srinagar.

Poswal said that the two sisters had gone to their field and an adjacent field in Sehpora in Ganderbal to recover their mother's lost watch when the altercation too...