A shocking incident happened in Madhya Pradeshs Jabalpur, when a woman allegedly slapped and later strangled her two-year-old niece to death for crying incessantly and not allowing her to sleep, said the police.Woman strangles two-year-old niece to death in MPs JabalpurThis incident occurred in the Rajiv Nagar area under Hanumantal Police Station limits on Monday and the accused was arrested, said an official said.Speaking to the media, Hanumantal Police Station in-charge M Dwivedi said the victim, daughter of one Mohammed Shakeel, went missing in the afternoon.Family members searched for the girl and approached the police after failing to find her, he said.He said that no clue about the missing girl was found after scanning CCTV footage of the area.Later, the police initiated a search for the toddler in her fathers home and found her body under a sofa set. Shakeel lives with his brothers in the same house.What happened on Monday afternoonAccording to the police, the victim went to her chachis (paternal aunt) room on Monday afternoon. Both had food together and later the toddlers aunt told her to go to her mother as she wanted to sleep, said Dwivedi.When the girl refused to leave the room, the accused slapped her. The girl started crying incessantly, which angered her aunt who strangled her to death and hid the body under the sofa set, he said.The accused woman has been arrested and booked for murder, the police officer added.
