MUZAFFARGARH: Police arrested on Wednesday a woman who allegedly strangled her five-year-old nephew to death and then dumped his body in a box to conceal her crime at Basti Darigh of Rohilanwali town.

According to police, the woman has confessed to have killed the child over a fight among the children.

According to the victim, Tahir’s father, Shahid, his son had gone missing while playing in the street near his house on Tuesday.

After failing o find the child, the family reported the matter to Rohilanwali police, and lodged a kidnapping case against unknown persons.

However, when police launched a search operation in the village and over suspicion interrogated Tahir’s aunt Nadia Bibi, she confessed her crime.

As per police, Nadia said that Tahir beat her children, which enraged her and she strangled him to death. To conceal her crime, the suspect dumped the child’s body in a box in her house.

The police, after recovering the body, shifted it to hospital for the postmortem examination.

The police added section 302 to the kidnapping FIR.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2024