Sister detained for murder of 14-yr-old
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. The 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 took place. After the incident , the elder sister, after coming home, wrongly told parents and police that they were kidnapped by some individuals and she managed to escape from their clutches. "The elder sister said a lot of things which were not matching with facts. After a sustained interrogation, she admitted that there was an altercation with her younger sister and they punched each other in a fit of rage," said Poswal.
Thereafter, the elder sister allegedly hit the younger girl on her head with a wooden stick. "When the younger sister lost consciousness, the elder one again hit her on head due to which she died," Poswal said.
"There was a scuffle on a minor altercation. In a fit of rage the elder sister hit the younger one with a stick and killed her fearing she might tell the parents," he stated.
The body of the girl was recovered in the morning on Sunday, immediately after she went missing, from a grassy land near a road in Ganderbal. The recovery of the body had prompted anger and protests in the area after the elder sister had claimed that some individuals tried to abduct them. The SSP said the initial story that the two girls were kidnapped outside their home and one of them was killed was not adding up. "The road and the location from which the body was recovered, there is CCTV and there is also CCTV at the girls' home. The abduction place shown by the elder girl was not matching as it was locked," he said....
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