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HARIDWAR: In a horrific incident, two minor girls threw their one-and-a-half-year-old brother in the Upper Ganga canal in Haridwar as they were fed up of looking after him. The victim, identified as Poorab, had gone missing on Friday when he was with his two sisters.

Poorab's father Sonu Kumar, a resident of Lodha Mandi who works as a mechanic, had registered a missing person report regarding the boy on Sunday. The parents had initially claimed the boy was stolen. However, police zeroed in on the two sisters, aged 13 and 14 years, as prime suspects on the basis of CCTV footage in which they were seen carrying the boy towards the canal.

On interrogation, the two girls told police that they had been "inspired" by a recent case in which a woman had killed her son because she was fed up of looking after him.

Police added they are yet to fish out the body of the victim and assume he has drowned.

