To become an occultist, father throws 3-year-old girl into canal
A three-year-old girl who had gone missing on July 11 was thrown into a canal by her father to become a ‘tantrik’ (occultist), police said.
The child’s body was recovered from the Gurgaon canal in Faridabad the next day.
The police had registered case of kidnapping when Dheeraj Kumar of Pyali Chowk area under the Kotwali police station informed the police control room that his daughter had been kidnapped.
“We scanned CCTV footage in the area and got suspicious. When we confronted him with regard to inconsistencies in his statement, he confessed to the crime,” an investigator said.
He was arrested and produced in a court on Thursday which remanded him to one-day police custody. “Dheeraj told the police that he wanted to get rid of his daughter Sonakshi to become a tantrik,” the police said.
“We sought his one-day police remand to know who advised him to take this extreme step,” Ram Nath, in-charge, NIT-2 police post, said.
In the complaint, Kumar had said he had taken his daughter to the nearby market on scooter and dropped her back near his house.
When his wife called him to know about their whereabouts, he told her that he had dropped Sonakshi near their house.
When his wife told him that the child was not home, Dheeraj arrived and called the police claiming she had been kidnapped, it further said.
The body was brought to the BK Hospital where the family identified child.