Patna, 30 April (). Patna Police on Saturday cracked the heinous murder of a two-and-a-half-month-old baby girl, who was found dead inside a plastic container of ghee on April 26, by arresting her father.
In the interrogation of the police, the accused Bharat Yadav has accepted his crime.
Police said that Yadav used to run a small tea stall in Kajipur under Kadam Kuan police station area. His daughter had a hole in her heart. Yadav had sold all his valuables, including his wife’s gold ornaments, to pay for his daughter’s treatment, but her health did not improve.
On April 26, he decided to kill his daughter, said an official spokesperson of the Patna Police. The accused’s daughter and his son were sleeping on the bed when his wife went to the washroom to take a bath, Yadav saw the opportunity and strangled his daughter to death, then he put her in a plastic container and fled.
When his wife Kajal Devi came out of the washroom, she found their daughter missing, the spokesperson said. He raised an alarm and contacted his neighbors. She also called her husband and asked him to come home immediately. The accused behaved as if he did not know anything. He also started searching for his daughter. Kajal forced her husband to contact the local police. When the police searched the house, they found the girl’s body inside a container.
SGK
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