Hyderabad: Police, on Saturday, October 4, arrested the maternal uncle and aunt of a seven-year-old girl whose body was found in a water tanker at her grandparents’ house in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

The accused have been identified as Mir Sami Ali and Yasmeen Begum, residents of Chowni in Yakutpura .

Hyderabad girl’s relatives harboured enmity

Sami Ali had financial disputes with the victim, Ummehani Sumaiya’s mother and her sister, Shabana Sultana. The couple also suspected the family practised black magic after their three-year-old daughter died of ill health in November last year.

They had developed a grudge against Shabana and her children due to the latter’s frequent visits to their house, which led them to plan the victim’s murder, police said.

On September 30, Shabana visit

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