Aurangabad: In a gruesome incident, a five-year-old girl was strangled to death on Thursday night by a neighbouring couple over an old dispute they had with her mother.
The victim has been identified as Pranali Kailas Bagate of Ranjangaon in Aurangabad tehsil. One Nitin Patil and his wife, Sangeeta, have been booked in the murder case by the MIDC Waluj police station. Relevant sections of the atrocity Act have also been invoked in the case. They have been arrested. The chief of the police station, PI Rameshwar Thorat, said that the Patils threw the body into a nullah in front of her house after murdering the child.