Anjali Singh, a 28-year-old receptionist originally from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly murdered her 3-year-old daughter, Kavya Singh, by throwing her into Ana Sagar Lake in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Anjali had previously divorced her husband, Raju, about a year earlier and moved to Ajmer with her daughter, where she entered into a romantic live-in relationship with Alkesh Kumar, a hotel worker. According to police and source reports, Alkesh repeatedly taunted Anjali about her daughter being from her previous marriage. Seeking to remove what she perceived as an obstacle to her live-in relationship and gain sympathy, Anjali dragged her daughter to the Chowpati area of Ana Sagar Lake around 1:30 AM, smothered the child's mouth, and threw her into the water, watching her drown. She then sat on her phone calmly before contacting Alkesh at 2:00 AM to fabricate a story that Kavya was missing. Around 4:00 AM, Head Constable Govind Sharma spotted Anjali and Alkesh wandering in Vaishali Nagar and inquired about her distress. Anjali claimed her child slipped away while walking around 10:00 PM. However, police retrieved CCTV footage showing Anjali dragging the child at 1:30 AM and using her phone normally between 2:30 AM and 3:00 AM. On Wednesday morning, Kavya's floating body was recovered from Ana Sagar Lake. Confronted with CCTV evidence and the recovered body, Anjali confessed to the crime. Police arrested Anjali, while preliminary investigations indicate Alkesh was not directly involved in the execution of the murder.
Country: India
State/Province: Rajasthan, India
City/Region: Ajmer
Incident Type: Family Homicide
Relationship Status: Live-in relationship
Relationship Duration: Approximately 1 year
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Crime Tak - India · Original language: Hindi
Maa ने 3 साल की Beti को रात 1:30 बजे झील में फेंक किया Murder,ज़िंदा बेटी की चीख और तड़प देख हुई खुश
Domestic Violence
This case illustrates an extreme manifestation of filicide motivated by attachment conflict within a secondary romantic relationship. Following a marital breakdown and relocation, the offender prioritized retaining her live-in partner over her child's survival. Domestic pressure in the form of repeated rejection and taunting by the new partner triggered a calculated response to eliminate the child and manipulate the situation to gain emotional sympathy.
Police in Ajmer successfully cracked the case within hours after Head Constable Govind Sharma initially flagged the suspicious behavior of Anjali Singh and Alkesh Kumar at 4:00 AM. Key physical evidence included Ana Sagar Lake Chowpati CCTV footage detailing timeline discrepancies between Anjali's claimed 10:00 PM disappearance and her observed actions at 1:30 AM and 2:30 AM. Following the recovery of Kavya Singh's body by police on a wooden boat, Anjali confessed during interrogation. Anjali Singh was formally arrested under Christian Ganj police jurisdiction.
Initially, Anjali attempted to mislead patrolling officers by claiming her daughter slipped away from her hand around 10:00 PM while walking to Alkesh's house. However, investigation confusion was quickly eliminated when CCTV timestamps contradicted her narrative, showing her forcibly dragging the child at 1:30 AM and sitting calmly on her mobile phone around 2:30 AM.
Around 1:30 AM on Thursday night, Anjali dragged 3-year-old Kavya to the deserted Chowpati area of Ana Sagar Lake. After verifying no witnesses were present, she covered Kavya's mouth and threw her into the lake, standing nearby as the child drowned. Between 2:30 AM and 3:00 AM, she sat nearby using her phone, then phoned Alkesh at 2:00 AM / post-incident to claim the child was missing. They staged a search until encountered by Head Constable Govind Sharma at 4:00 AM. CCTV evidence combined with body recovery at 10:00-11:00 AM led to her swift confession and arrest.
The offender demonstrated high situational risk through severe moral disengagement, pre-incident planning, and active concealment. By interpreting her partner's verbal rejection of the child as an ultimatum, she chose extreme violence against a vulnerable dependent rather than seeking legal or social support mechanisms.
Timely police proactive encounters and comprehensive CCTV surveillance coverage are crucial in exposing staged missing-child reports. Severe domestic conflict involving non-biological children in new live-in arrangements represents a critical risk factor requiring early intervention.
Continuous verbal friction and taunts from the live-in partner regarding the child's paternity from a previous marriage served as the primary preceding signal of severe strain.
CCTV footage recorded at 1:30 AM showing Anjali forcibly dragging her child on the road, followed by footage of her calmly using her mobile phone at 2:30 AM, contradicted her claim that the child went missing at 10:00 PM.
The retrieved body of 3-year-old Kavya Singh from Ana Sagar Lake, paired with multi-angle street and Chowpati CCTV camera recordings, formed the core evidence.
Head Constable Govind Sharma reported seeing a dazed, disheveled woman with a male companion wandering Vaishali Nagar at 4:00 AM, prompting him to stop and inquire if she needed assistance.
Follow-up police inquiry revealed that live-in partner Alkesh Kumar was not directly present during or facilitating the murder, focusing primary criminal liability on Anjali Singh.
It remains under investigation whether Alkesh Kumar indirectly abetted the crime through persistent psychological pressure or if he held any post-offense knowledge prior to police intervention.