Malda, August 30: A three-year-old girl was hacked to death by her aunt on suspicion of stealing in this West Bengal district, police said today.
Nausad Khatun”s body with her head bludgeoned and bearing deep knife wounds on her neck and stomach was found on a verandah near the house where she lived at Malopara village, they said.
She was reported missing since yesterday.
Her aunt, 35 year-old Shakeena Bibi, had lost her gold chain a few days ago and suspected Nausad”s mother and had grilled her, the police said.
The child”s father works in Kerala and her mother along with Nausad stayed with her parents, brother and sister-in-law Shakeena.
Shakeena was arrested during the day and confessed her crime, the police said.
–Agencies