A 16-year-old boy, who allegedly strangled a nine-year-old girl to death at her house and then tried to set her body ablaze in a gruesome crime in Gurugram on Monday, confessed that he planned to steal jewellery from the victim’s house in order to pay off debts he incurred in online gambling, but committed the murder in the “spur of the moment” after the victim caught him stealing and raised an alarm, police said on Tuesday.
The accused told investigators that he lost ₹20,000 in online gambling…
