Caught stealing Rs 10, teenager drowns 4-year old to death

Enraged that a 4-year-old exposed her act of "stealing" Rs 10, a teenaged girl allegedly drowned the child by throwing her into a well at Chinna Salem in the district, police said today.
The girl, a student of class X, was held on charges of murder and produced before a Magistrate court today which remanded her to a juvenile home.
The girl had allegedly thrown Durga, her neighbour, into the well on Monday and the body was found yesterday, police said.
Initial investigation revealed that the girl used to frequent Durga's house and play with her. Some days ago, Durga had told her mother, Santhanalakshmi, that the girl had taken Rs 10 from her handbag.

Santhanalakshmi told the police that small amounts of money used to vanish from her bag, but she had ignored it earlier.
However, when she came to know that it was the girl who had stolen the money, she asked her parents not to send her to their house.
The girl who was enraged with the child then threw her into the well.