India, Feb. 7 -- A four-year-old child video-called her grandmother to show the lifeless body of her mother hanging from the ceiling of their home in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad town and revealed that her father hung her to death.

During a chilling conversation, the toddler told her grandmother: "Papa hung mom. She is not responding."

The grandmother saw the deceased's lifeless body hanging from a noose.

The grandmother immediately alerted the police and other family members.

The child's father, Rohit Kumar, a software engineer from Modinagar, Ghaziabad, was taken into custody before dawn on Thursday, reported The Times of India.

The victim was identified as Ruby Rani, 35.

She worked as a primary teacher in Bikampur Kulwada, Kundarki ...