Rajasthan woman kills 4-year-old girl to steal her silver anklets, buries body in sand

A 29-year-old woman from Rajasthan's Jhalawar strangulated a four-year-old girl to rob her of her silver anklets. The woman then buried the girl's body in sand.

To steal the silver anklets of a four-year-old girl, a woman strangulated her and buried the body in a sand mound in her house in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, police said on Monday.

According to the police, the 29-year-old woman lured the girl into her house with a toffee on Saturday evening. She hit the girl in the head with a stone and then strangulated her to death. The woman removed the anklets and buried the body in a sand mound in her house in the Bhawanimandi police station area of the district.

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Following a missing complaint, the police swiftly swung into action, recovered the body from the neighbour's house on Sunday morning and arrested the woman on the same night.

She was produced before a court on Monday and was sent to judicial custody.

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The woman, identified as Taruna, admitted to having committed the crime, Circle Inspector at Bhawanimandi police station Mahesh Singh said, adding that the anklets were recovered from her possession.