woman drowned her two infant girls unable to bear the constant “ridicule,” including from her husband, for having given birth to only daughters, police said.
KOLKATA: A woman drowned her two infant girls unable to bear the constant “ridicule,” including from her husband, for having given birth to only daughters, police said.
The confession by the woman identified as Seema Soi, a resident of Chagram in Burdwan district, ended the mystery of discovery of two bodies from a reservoir at the global headquarters of the Ramkrishna Math and Mission at Belur in Howrah district.
“She confessed that she killed her two daughters because everyone including her husband ridiculed her for giving birth to girls,” Howrah district superintendent of police, Neeraj Kumar Singh said.
The girls were aged four years and seven months. Police arrested the woman following interrogation after her confession statement. “She also wanted to drown herself in the Hooghly river which flows past the the Math, but found too many people around and returned home to Burdwan,” Singh said.
The woman had boarded a train to Liluah on Tuesday when her husband, Kanchan, asked her to take the elder daughter to a doctor as she was ill. After alighting from the train at Liluah she took a rickshaw to the Math when evening prayers were on and drowned the two girls aged four and seven months one by one, Singh said, adding that she chose this time because people were at prayer.
After reaching Burdwan, Seema took a bus home to Chagram, but fainted after alighting and was taken to a nursing home by the local police who found her. Seema’s brother, Ranjit Mondal, a resident of Anandnagar in Liluah, who came to know of the discovery of the bodies from the newspapers went to the Bally police station and identified them and told the police that his sister was missing.
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