During interrogation, the mother told her first husband abandoned her, and she met a man named Rahul on Instagram. She moved to Delhi with plans of marrying Rahul. However, his family refused to accept her daughter which led to the alleged crime. The mother strangled her child out of frustration over this rejection.

A five-year-old girl was found dead in Delhi's Ashok Vihar, allegedly strangled by her own mother. The mother confessed to the crime during interrogat

A woman allegedly strangled her fiver-year-old daughter to death in northwest Delhi to marry a man she met on Instagram, police said on Saturday. Police said they received information from Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital on Friday about the child being brought dead to the hospital.

A case under the relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act has been registered.