KURUKSHETRA: The

of

in Haryana on Thursday registered a case of murder against a father who strangulated his six-year-old girl to death in

in the district on Wednesday late evening.

The deceased has been identified as

(6) who studied in Class I of

in Ladwa town.

The accused father Jasbir Singh of Dabkhera village worked at a private company in Kurukshetra.

Kurukshetra police officials said the accused father confessed to the crime and disclosed that he struggled to pay her private school fee, following which he strangulated the girl.

On the complaint of girl’s mother Harjinder Kaur, the Kurukshetra police registered a case against her husband Jasbir Singh under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the

(IPC).

Harjinder told the police, “Nearly eight years ago, I solemnised love marriage with Jasbir Singh of Dabkhera village and we had a six-year-old daughter Asmeet Kaur, who studied in Class I of DPS School in Ladwa and we lived separately from our other family members. On Wednesday, at around 6.30pm, Jasbir returned home from his job and after getting fresh, he went outside with Asmeet for a walk. My father-in-law

was also walking in the street outside and I was cooking food in the kitchen.”

“Suddenly after some time I saw Jasbir carrying Asmeet in his lap, who was lying unconscious. I saw Asmeet and there were injury marks on her neck. My father-in-law came there and said that Jasbir has strangulated Asmeet . I called my brother-in-law and rushed her to local hospital in Ladwa. She was referred to Kurukshetra, where a doctor of a private hospital declared her dead," Jaswinder added.

“The post-mortem of the deceased girl has been conducted on Thursday and a case of murder has been registered. The accused father has been rounded up and during the preliminary investigation, he disclosed that he was struggling to pay school fee of his daughter due to which he strangulated her to death. The father said that his daughter used to ask him about the school fee again and again which he could not arrange,” said inspector Om Prakash, SHO, Ladwa police station.