Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India] June 22 : The Muzaffarnagar Police have solved a case of suspicious deaths of a 1-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, with the mother of the children confessing to the crime.
According to SSP Sanjay Verma, the police received information about the deaths, and an investigation was initiated.
Upon questioning, the mother revealed that she had poisoned the children with tea and biscuits. The motive behind the crime was her plan to elope with her lover, Junaid, from a neighbouring village. The two had allegedly planned the murder together.
Yesterday, the police received information that a 1-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy died under suspicious circumstances. The mother of the children was questioned, and the woman confessed to her crime. The woman had poisoned the children with tea and biscuits. The woman was having an affair with a boy named Junaid from the neighbouring village. Both of them together planned and poisoned the children. They had planned to run away from home. Action is being taken to register a case and send the accused to jail." SSP Muzaffarnagar, Sanjay Verma, told reporters on Saturday.
The police have taken action to register a case and will send the accused to jail. Further investigation is underway.
Earlier, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested an accused from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura in connection with a case involving the sexual assault of minor children and the possession and dissemination of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), the agency said in a release on Saturday.
According to the release, a case was registered suo-moto on 17.06.2025 against the accused, from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on serious allegations including the creation, collection, storage, and uploading of CSAM depicting minors in explicit sexual acts. The accused was also in possession of pornographic content involving children, in violation of the law.
Searches were conducted on 19.06.2025 at the residential premises of the accused, resulting in the seizure of incriminating electronic devices. Subsequent forensic analysis uncovered a substantial volume of CSAM in the form of images and videos. These materials were corroborated with data from INTERPOL's International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database, as well as Cyber Tipline Reports (CTRs) generated by Google and shared with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, the CBI said.
Investigation and analysis of electronic devices revealed the electronic content depicting minor children being raped, sexually assaulted, sexually harassed, threatened and their obscene photographs were taken by the accused in Mathura. In a swift and coordinated effort, the CBI was able to identify, locate, and rescue the minor victim children.
Accordingly, the accused was arrested on 21.06.2025 and is currently in custody, the CBI said. The CBI uncovered this case, as neither the victims nor their families had reported the incidents to any law enforcement agency prior to the CBI's intervention, it said, adding that the investigation in the case is continuing.