Meerut: Five-year-old girl offers her piggy bank to cops as bribe, tells them to find her mother's killers

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Lucknow: In a heart-rending incident, a five-year-old girl walked into the office of Inspector General Ram Kumar in Meerut district on Tuesday and offered him her piggy bank as a bribe.

Manvi's mother, Seema Kaushik, had committed suicide in April and her family claims that her husband and his relatives not only tortured her for dowry but also falsely framed two fake police cases against her.

Manvi lives in Meerut district of western Uttar Pradesh.

On Tuesday, she, accompanied by her maternal grandfather Shanti Swaroop Sharma and uncle Rohit Sharma, visited IG Kumar at his office and told him that she had heard that her mother's case would not be solved unless she paid a bribe.

“Sab kehte hain ki paise ke bina kuchh nahin hoga (Everybody says that without money, nothing ever happen).”

“Take this, but arrest those who forced my mother to commit suicide,” Deccan Chronicle quoted the girl as telling the police official.

IG Ram Kumar asked the innocent girl to take back her piggy bank and vowed to take action against the perpetrators.

According to reports, Manvi’s mother Seema got married to Sanjiv Kaushik five years ago. Soon after the marriage, Sanjiv had begun harassing Seema for dowry. She had been staying with her parents since the past four years.

Despite registering a case against Sanjiv and her in-laws, no action was taken.