Overview
- Officers in Muzaffarnagar detained a 25-year-old identified as Mana, who is accused of killing her young niece and attacking her sister-in-law inside a home in Basi Kalan.
- Investigators say she mixed about 16 sleeping pills into tea or food, waited until past midnight, then drowned the child in a water tank and stabbed the child’s mother.
- Police attribute the motive to a dispute over Mana’s long-running relationship with a boyfriend, which her sister-in-law allegedly forbade; reports note the family had arranged her marriage.
- Authorities say Mana initially blamed unknown assailants but later confessed under questioning; she has been sent to jail under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- The injured sister-in-law is hospitalized in Meerut and three girls were also wounded; a forensic team and dog squad examined the scene, the child’s body was sent for postmortem, and the probe continues.