The father of the nine-year-old girl, who was found outside her home in north Kashmir's Kupwara district with her throat slit on March 9 has confessed to the crime, India Today reported.
The 45-year-old man, a driver by profession confessed to slitting his daughter's throat after she came in the way of his plan to die by suicide, according to a NDTV report.
Senior Superintendent of Police Kupwara, Yougal Manhas, said that the man was taken into police custody for questioning after his daughter’s body was recovered.
“During interrogation, he confessed to the gruesome crime. The knife used in the crime was also recovered from him,” he said, according to India Today