Police on Monday sent a 40-year-old man to Seraikela divisional jail after arresting him for killing his 14-year-old daughter at his house in Kapali near Mango under Chandil police station area two months ago. The man, Jaffar Hussain, allegedly killed his daughter Muskan Perveen as she was not good in studies.
The police arrested Hussain, a father of three children, Muskan being the eldest one, after unearthing the victim's body from the courtyard of his house late last night. Muskan was a student of class V in a local Urdu medium school at Azadnagar in the adjoining Mango.
OC, Kapali police station out-post (TOP), lal Bihari Prasad said that they arrested the accused who is a fruit vendor, after searching for Muskan who was missing from the house since the past two months.
He said the victim's mother Saheen Perveen had lodged a missing person report with the Kapali TOP in October though later she had expressed her suspicion that her daughter might have been murdered.
“We were able to crack the case after thorough investigation. After Muskan disappeared two months ago, Hussain would console his wife Saheen that she must have gone some where and would return home.