KOYILANDI: Crucial information is out in the murder of the 12-year-old by mixing poison in ice cream. Ahmed Hasan Rifai (12), son of Arikulam Koroth Muhammadali, was killed by his paternal sister Tahira (34). The police immediately arrested the woman.

Tahira killed the child by adding poison to a family pack of ice cream. According to a media report, the accused gave a statement to the police that she did not plan to kill the child, but that the aim was to kill her brother's wife.

Both families lived in houses next to each other. Tahira planned to kill her brother's wife out of personal enmity, but she escaped because she was not at home. It was also reported that Tahira had mental problems.

The child had vomited after eating ice cream. He died while undergoing treatment in a private hospital. After this, the Health Department, Food Safety Department, Police and Forensic Department took a sample from the shop where the ice cream was sold and closed it after testing it. In the postmortem report, it was mentioned that ammonium phosphorus was found. Police took statements from many people after that before confirming it was a murder.