Overview

• Twenty-four-year-old Muskan admitted feeding her five-year-old son Arhan and one-year-old daughter Enaya rasgullas laced with illegal pesticide.
• Local officers found no external injuries on the children’s bodies and a post-mortem confirmed death by poisoning.
• Investigators uncovered frequent calls between Muskan and her cousin Junaid, whom she planned to elope with after killing her children.
• Junaid remains at large as police booked Muskan under sections 103 (murder) and 123 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Detectives have registered a case over the unauthorized sale of the poison from a tractor shop and are tracing its source.