Minors held for killing 6-yr-old over mangoes

JAMSHEDPUR: Two minor sisters were on Friday arrested for allegedly murdering a six-yearold girl over a dispute on plucking mangoes in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, police said.

“Both the sisters — aged 12 years and nine years — have been apprehended and a case has been registered under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian

Penal Code. They have been booked on charges of strangulating a six-year-old girl from the neighbourhood in Pakuabera village on Thursday afternoon. The two girls have been sent to a remand home,” Praveen Kumar, Chakradharpur police station officer-in-charge, said.

Police said it wasn’t immediately clear whether the deceased was plucking mangoes from the orchard that belonged to the family of the accused when they allegedly attacked her.