An official stated today that the police exhumed the 18-month-old daughter’s body and detained her parents more than three weeks after the couple allegedly killed their child and buried her in secret at a Thane cemetery in Maharashtra, following an anonymous letter alerting them to the crime.
The 38-year-old Jahid Sheikh and his 28-year-old wife Noorami were taken into custody on Wednesday in connection with the March 18 murder, according to him.
“The police recently received an anonymous letter about the couple killing their child, Labiba, and quietly burying the body in the graveyard. The police launched a probe and detained the couple. Initially, the accused did not cooperate, but later told how they committed the crime. However, they did not reveal the motive behind the killing,” senior inspector Anil Shinde of the Mumbra police station said.
“The couple told the police that they killed their daughter on March 18, after then buried the body in a local graveyard. The police then exhumed the decomposed body. The autopsy report confirmed that the child had suffered injuries on her head and other body parts,” he added.
According to him, the police had filed a case under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence of offence).
The couple was presented before a magistrate on Wednesday and placed under arrest by police until April 15, according to Inspector (crime) SA Dawne.
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