PTI
 
ALLAHABAD, Apr 19: A seven-year-old girl was on Sunday beaten to death allegedly by her parents who suspected her of stealing Rs 1,000 from the house, police said.

The incident took place in Colonelganj police station area of the city, where Chunni, the youngest among five siblings, was beaten with sticks by her father, who is an auto-rickshaw driver and her mother, who works as a Class IV employee at a local hospital, police said.

They said some neighbours who were horrified at the sight of the girl being beaten up by her own parents, brought it to the notice of the police.

When a police party reached the spot, they found the girl's body neatly wrapped in a piece of cloth which her parents were apparently planning to dump at some unidentified place.

The couple were arrested as the girl's elder sister told the police that their father had found that an amount of Rs 1,000 he had kept in his wallet missing.

He suspected that the money was stolen by Chunni, the youngest among four daughters and a son, and in a fit of rage began hitting her with a stick. He was also allegedly joined in the brutal act by the mother of the child, police said.