Woman kills daughter to marry lover in northwest Delhi | Latest Delhi News

Delhi Police have arrested a 27-year-old woman from northwest Delhi’s Wazirabad village on charges of strangling her five-year-old daughter, allegedly after the family of her boyfriend – whom she planned to marry – refused to take care of the child, officials said on Saturday.

Deputy commissioner of police (northwest) Abhishek Dhania said the girl was killed on Thursday, adding that they have registered a murder case at Ashok Vihar police station.

The investigation into the girl’s death also revealed that she was repeatedly raped in Himachal Pradesh, where she lived with her mother before she moved to Delhi about 10 days ago, officials said, adding that they had registered a separate case on charges of rape and minor rape. sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (Pocso) Act.

The police are also questioning the woman’s boyfriend.

Sharing details, officials said on Thursday evening that Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital informed the police about a girl who was brought dead to the facility. “When the police reached the spot, doctors told them that the baby had strangulation marks on its neck. A case has been registered and the body has been sent for postmortem,” Dhaniaid said.

During the investigation, the police determined that the minor was brought to the hospital by three people. Police reported that one of them, a woman, stated that she was the child’s maternal aunt. However, “after prolonged interrogation, the woman broke down and confessed that she was the child’s mother and that she had strangled her,” a senior police officer said.

According to DCP Dhania, the woman, who hails from Nepal, got married in the village but he allegedly abandoned her when their daughter was about a year old.

“About four years ago, she went to Himachal Pradesh to stay with her family. A few months ago, she met a man on social media and they both fell in love. Later she came to Delhi and wanted to marry him but he and his family were not ready to accept the girl. She said she killed the baby out of frustration,” Dhania said.

Until Thursday evening, the woman lived with her family in the man’s house in Wazirabad village. On the day of the crime, she was alone at home with her daughter. She was arrested the same day.

The police did not disclose details of the boy’s interrogation or whether he knew that the girl was the woman’s daughter.

Meanwhile, police reported that an autopsy revealed injuries to the girl’s genitals. “The girl’s mother was interrogated and revealed that a relative in Himachal Pradesh had assaulted the child,” the officer quoted above said, adding that a team was deployed to arrest the suspect.

The police also questioned the boy’s family, and his father revealed that the woman had introduced the girl as her niece.

“She brought a girl with her and said that she was her sister’s daughter and that she had adopted the child after her sister’s death… We told her that she should send the girl to her relatives in Himachal Pradesh as it was a big responsibility,” the father said, adding that about They found out that the girl was the woman’s daughter only after the arrest.