Overview
- Locals found a five-year-old boy crying near a forest along the Pune–Nashik highway on Wednesday morning, which led police to the case.
- Officers recovered his three-year-old sister’s body in the nearby woods and sent it for a post-mortem, then arrested their father within about 12 hours.
- Investigators say Sagar Sadashiv Shinde confessed during questioning to strangling his daughter and leaving both children in the forest.
- A judge ordered Shinde held in police custody through May 12 under a case for murder and related offences.
- The case is filed under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new criminal code that replaced the Indian Penal Code, and police cite recent domestic strife as context.