LUCKNOW, April 19 -- A 15-year-old girl allegedly strangled her seven-year-old brother to death following a quarrel over a lollipop in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district and later tried to pass it off as suicide by hanging, police said. The incident occurred on April 11 at Thalhapar village under Lalganj police station limits, around 22 km from the district headquarters.

According to police and family members, the boy was found hanging from a ceiling hook with a scarf on the house terrace. Hearing the girl's screams, family members rushed to the spot, brought the child down, and took him to a primary health centre in Bankati. Doctors referred him to the district hospital in Basti due to his critical condition, but he died on the way.

The fa...