Noida doctor’s teen daughter killed

Noida, July 18: A 14-year-old girl, who was alone in her house here, was found murdered on Tuesday and around Rs 25 lakh cash missing, with the police taking into custody a person over suspicion of his involvement in the case, officials said. The incident took place in Purana Sutiyana area under Ecotech 3 police station limits when the girl’s father, Sudarshan Bairagi, an ayurvedic doctor, had gone to his clinic in Sector 93 in the morning along with his wife and younger child, they said.
“When they returned home around 1.30 pm, they found the victim, Shilpi, lying on the bed with a cloth tied around her neck and some blood oozing out from her mouth. The child was rushed to a nearby hospital but did not survive,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Anil Kumar Yadav said. Bairagi, a native of Meerut district, told police that he recently sold a property which fetched him around Rs 23.50 lakh which was kept at home, along with Rs 1.50 lakh that he already had, Yadav said. (PTI)