A mother attempted to kill herself after poisoning her one-year-old daughter because she did not like to live in her husband's village.
The woman, identified as Leela Nayak, a resident of the Mandva village in India's Rajkot, consumed poison on Monday, Oct.4. before feeding it to her toddler daughter, Asmita, police said.
Nayak had reportedly gone to live with her parents at Halvad Town during the Rakshabandhan festival.
After living in the town for over a month Nayak reportedly did not want to return to her husband’s home in the village.
However, despite her disapproval, her husband, identified as Rajnikant brought her back to his home a few weeks ago.
The couple frequently got into heated arguments and the woman repeatedly expressed her want to go back to her town.
On Monday night, following one such argument with her husband, Nayak picked up her toddler daughter and stormed into the bedroom which she locked from the inside.
She then fed the poison to the baby girl before consuming it herself. The worried family members managed to break into the room and rushed the mother and daughter to a nearby hospital.
Nayak is recuperating at a hospital in Amreli while her daughter died during treatment.
The toddler’s body was sent to a medical examiner’s office for an autopsy and later handed over to her family for performing her last rites.
According to reports, Rajnikant is deeply disturbed by the sudden demise of his baby girl. The devastated father filed a complaint against his wife accusing her of murder.
Based on the husband’s complaint, Nayak was booked for murder. She will be arrested after her discharge from the hospital.
In another unrelated incident, a 17-year-old boy who questioned his mother’s affair was allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend. The shocking murder happened Monday, Oct.4. in Halsuru, a town in the state of Karnataka, India.
The boy, identified as Nandu, a resident of Murphy Town, lived with his mother, Geetha. According to reports, Geetha and Nandu’s father had separated six years ago.
She had recently befriended an unmarried autorickshaw driver, identified as Shakthivelu over Facebook. The two eventually got close and later allegedly got into a physical relationship, reports said.
Nandu knew about his mother’s affair and strongly disapproved of it.
On Monday night, Shakthivelu came to see the woman unaware that her son was home.
The two got into a heated altercation during which Shakthivelu grabbed a kitchen knife and repeatedly stabbed the teenager in front of his mother.
The horrified mother rushed the teen to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.
The police have arrested Shakthivelu and have charged him with relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
© 2024 Latin Times. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.