Overview
- The toddler was removed from a Sector 12-A creche on January 24 by a man who posed as the child's father.
- Police arrested Ajay Rana of Pinjore after CCTV analysis identified him as the suspect.
- Investigators say he strangled the child with a cleaning cloth in his autorickshaw, then dumped the body in a plastic sack under a culvert near the Sukhomajri bypass.
- A murder case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered, the court granted a four-day police remand, and the autorickshaw has been recovered.
- Officers are questioning the mother, examining the creche’s handover procedures, and conducting a post-mortem at Civil Hospital, Sector 6.