With the arrest of a woman, the Panipat police claimed to have solved a blind murder case involving a six-year-old girl at Naultha village in the district. The child’s body was found from a water tub in a storeroom on the first floor of a house in the village.

During the investigation, it emerged that she had already killed three other children, including her own son. The accused is the aunt (chachi) of the deceased.

SP Bhupender Singh said the woman, identified as Poonam (32) of Bhawar village in Sonepat, was a psycho-killer as she harboured hatred towards attractive children, especially girls, and drowned them so their deaths would appear natural.

The six-year-old girl was identified as Vidhi of Bhawar village. Her family had come to attend a relative’s wedding at Naultha village on D

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