Man strangles stepdaughter in Gr Noida, arrested

The suspect was booked on charges of 103 (murder) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sent to jail.

The man was arrested from Greater Noida after the decomposing body was recovered; a post-mortem examination was conducted the same day and confirmed strangulation.

The girl resided with her parents and three younger brothers in a village in Jewar.

The accused filed a missing persons complaint at Jewar police station claiming that his stepdaughter had gone missing after leaving home to buy milk.

On April 20, 2026, police say a 38-year-old man strangled his 14-year-old stepdaughter to death at an under-construction house after she accused him of sexual abuse. He packed her body in a sack, drove it about 15 km, and dumped it in bushes near Yamuna Pushta Road in Greater Noida. The incident came to light as part of an investigation into the girl’s disappearance.

Around 2:00 am on April 17, 2026, the girl was brought back home by her mother from the grandmother’s Delhi residence; family members said the suspect was enraged by the minor’s disclosure of sexual abuse.

The teenager had been staying at her grandmother’s home in Delhi for about two months, from February 17, 2026, to around April 17, 2026.