Sirsa:
A gruesome murder case has come to light in Sirsa, Haryana, where a woman has been arrested for killing her seven-month-old granddaughter and then dumping her body in a tandoor.
The accused, Surja Devi, killed her granddaughter after a fight with the girl's maternal grandfather, Jogender. She has been arrested, police said.
The toddler Pooja went missing on June 20. Gurdip, father of the girl and a resident of Bajigar Thed basti in Lehranwali village, had filed a complaint with the police after the family failed to locate the little girl, who disappeared mysteriously from her parents' bed while they were asleep.
Later, the girl's badly burnt body was found lying near her home. As the body was found in the same locality, police suspected involvement of some family members in the crime.
During investigation the police found the behaviour of Surja Devi suspicious. When she was interrogated, she broke down and confessed to her crime.
Devi told the police that she killed Pooja by stuffing onion in her mouth and later burnt her body in the tandoor.
Devi said that she killed Pooja out of her unhappiness with Jogender, who had visited their home a few days before the incident and had a quarrel with Devi over a family matter involving the matrimonial discord of Surja's daughter.
Surja's married daughter Manjeet Kaur is staying with her parents for past few months and he wanted her to return to her in-laws.
Delhi Youth Congress chief Sushil Sharma allegedly killed his wife Naina Sahni in July 1995 and later burnt her body in a tandoor of Baghiya restaurant in New Delhi.