India, March 6 -- A shocking case has emerged from Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur, where a 40-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly strangling his five-year-old daughter to death and dismembering her body into four pieces.

The accused Mohit Mishra was enraged that his daughter Tani visited the house of a neighbour with whom he had a dispute, NDTV reported quoting police.

The child was reported missing on February 25, with Mishra himself filing the complaint.

"We registered a case and formed four teams to search for her. During the search, we discovered a body part. The next day, more remains were found, confirming that she had been murdered," the report quoted additional superintendent of police Pravin Ranjan Singh as saying.

The poli...