MEERUT: A 40-year-old man was arrested for allegedly strangling his 14-year-old daughter to death and dumping her in a canal in Bulandshahr's Anupshahr area after she took Rs 500 for pocket money without permission, an act which he termed as ‘stealing. ' Police said that the Class VII student's body was found floating in a canal on Friday evening. She was in school uniform. SP (rural) Tejveer Singh said, "The body was sent for postmortem. Prompt steps were taken to identify her, and her father, Ajay Sharma, was later held. During interrogation, Sharma, a small-time farmer, confessed that when he went to pick her from school at lunchtime on Thursday, instead of going home, he took her to his farm. There, he strangled her with a scarf and dumped the body in a canal." "Sharma told the

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