Drunk father throws baby girl in drain

Fed up over the constant crying of his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, a man threw her in a drain in southeast Delhi's Jamia Nagar area on late Tuesday night.

According to the police, the child's body was recovered from the drain on Thursday, almost 56 hours after her father, who claimed to be inebriated, had thrown her in a drain near their residence. Soon after the incident, the child's mother Mofida informed police that around midnight her husband Rashid Zamal (40) had kidnapped their daughter and taken her to a secret location.

Since the time the daughter was born, she used to fall sick quite often and on the day when Zamal was beating his wife, the child was unwell and was crying, a senior police officer said. Zamal, who was under the influence of liquor, was annoyed after hearing the child's cries. "He picked up the child and banged the child's head multiple times against the floor of the shanty they stayed in. His wife pleaded with him to stop but he did not listen to her. She then ran out to get help from her neighbours but the accused took the girl with him and ran away," said the officer. Mofida informed the police and a search operation for the accused and the child began.

After a few hours, the man was traced but he did not recollect about the incident and told police that he had left the child near one of the two drains running parallel to each other, the police said.