Man throws 3-year-old daughter in canal to become 'tantrik'
A man threw his three-year-old daughter in a canal in Haryana's Faridabad to become a 'tantrik', the police claimed. While the man claimed that his daughter went missing on July 11 and filed a kidnapping complaint, the truth was later revealed when police scanned CCTV footage of the area. The man confessed to his crime after the police confronted him.
A three-year-old girl who had gone missing on July 11, was thrown into a canal by her father to become a tantrik, police have claimed. The child?s body was recovered from the canal in Faridabad the next day.The police had registered a case of kidnapping when Dheeraj Kumar of Pyali Chowk area under the Kotwali police station informed the police control room (PCR)?that his daughter had been kidnapped. Kumar told the police that he had taken his daughter to a nearby market on a scooter and later dropped her near home. He claimed that she had gone missing after this. The CCTV footage showed the man leaving with his daughter and returning alone.?We scanned CCTV footage in the area and got suspicious about him,? a police official investigating the case said. ?In the footage the girl was not with him when he returned. When we confronted him, he confessed to his crime,? the official said.He was arrested and produced in a court on Thursday which remanded him to one-day police custody. ?During questioning, Dheeraj said he wanted to get rid of his daughter Sonakshi to become a tantrik,? the police said. ?We sought his one-day police remand to know who advised him to take this step,? Ram Nath, in-charge, NIT-2 police post, said.Police said that Dheeraj Kumar (centre, sitting) confessed his crime when they quizzed him. 
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						The girl had gone missing on July 11 and while the police were still investigating the case, a body was spotted at the canal in Sector 8. The body was brought to the BK Hospital where the family identified the child.The police, however, continued to investigate the abduction angle and scanned the CCTV footage for clues. It was in the footage that they saw Kumar taking his daughter out but returning alone. They then questioned the father who confessed that he had taken his daughter to the canal in Sector 8 and allegedly drowned her there.  