Overview
- The victim was identified as Shahnaz Khatun, daughter of a migrant worker from West Bengal, with reports spelling her father’s name as Inzamam or Injamul Sheikh.
- Police have registered a murder case and are searching for a neighbour, identified in reports as Yusuf Meer, who lived near the family in the Whitefield area.
- Officers said the body was found with a plastic rope around the neck and initial findings indicate strangulation, with no visible signs of sexual assault.
- Accounts differ on the recovery site, with The Hindu citing a migrant colony at Pattandur Agrahara and News18 citing Temple Road in Nallurhalli.
- Investigators mentioned personal vengeance as a possible motive, though the child’s father told police he had no enmity or financial dispute with the suspect.