Overview
- Vadodara rural police say a teenage girl laced her parents’ meal with sleeping pills before calling her lover and his associate, who entered around 2:30 am and fatally stabbed her father in Padra taluka.
- Investigators allege the trio planned the killing for roughly three months because the father opposed the relationship and had confined the girl and her mother at night.
- The accused lover had earlier been arrested under the POCSO Act on the father’s complaint and, after being released on bail, allegedly reconnected with the girl to plan the crime.
- Police say there were two earlier failed attempts to drug the parents in the days before the attack, including a discarded meal and an aborted plan when the mother woke up.
- A local court remanded the two adult suspects to police custody for two days, the girl has been detained, and the Juvenile Justice Board will assess whether she should be tried as an adult.