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Two, including a woman, were arrested for the execution of a six-year-old miss by the Alwal constabulary connected Monday (May 19, 2026) successful Old Alwal.
The accused were identified arsenic Rekha, the girl’s mother, and Bonagiri Saikumar. Police said the duo were arrested and remanded to judicial custody.
According to the police, six-year-old Tanvika was reported missing by household members connected the nighttime of May 16 from their residence successful Old Alwal. Her assemblage was aboriginal recovered from an overhead h2o vessel connected the terrace of the house.
Based connected the complaint, the Alwal constabulary registered a lawsuit nether applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and launched an investigation.
During the investigation, constabulary recovered that Rekha had joined her distant comparative Raju successful 2020. The mates had reportedly been surviving separately pursuing marital discord aft the commencement of their daughter.
Police said Rekha aboriginal developed a narration with her neighbour, Saikumar. Investigators alleged that the 2 planned to marry, but faced absorption from Saikumar’s household owing to Rekha’s marital presumption and the beingness of her daughter.
According to the police, the duo believed the kid was an obstacle to their narration and conspired to termination her astir a week earlier the incident.
Investigators said the brace initially considered pushing the kid into Alwal Lake but abandoned the thought owed to the beingness of radical successful the area. They past decided to drown her successful the overhead h2o vessel astatine the residence.
On May 16, erstwhile nary different household members were present, Rekha took Tanvika to the terrace nether the pretext of playing and drowned her successful the vessel earlier returning downstairs and claiming the kid had gone missing.
Police said Rekha aboriginal confessed during questioning that she had killed her girl nether the power and unit of Saikumar. Officials said the lawsuit was cracked done statements of household members and different corroborative evidence.
