BHOPAL: Police have arrested a woman who allegedly threw her 25-day-old baby girl into aseptic tank because she did not want a third daughter in Ghoradongri tehsil in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh.
The body of the 25-day-old baby girl was recovered from the septic tank on January 26. The arrested woman, identified as Nikita Agrawal, is daughter-in-law of a local BJP leader.
Police formally arrested her on Monday and she reportedly confessed to having purposely thrown the new born into the tank because she did not want a third daughter. She told the police that she had expected a son but when it was a third-time daughter, she decided to get rid of the child.
On that fateful day, the 25-day-old new-born was last spotted lying in the cot and fast asleep. Seven hours later, the police fished out the baby's body from the septic tank behind the house. The front door was locked during her disappearance. During investigation, the police interrogated the two domestic maids who gave the vital clues.
The needle of suspicion pointed towards the family from day one. According to the police, the baby was sleeping in the inner bedroom of the house at 5:30 pm and Nikita was the only person in the house with the child. Father of the baby Mukesh Agarwal told the police that no one was in the house at that time and the front door was bolted from inside. The two domestic maids were sent with the elder sisters of the baby for a stroll in the evening. Nikita had argued that she had gone to the bathroom leaving the baby in her cot. When she returned, the mother had claimed she found her baby was missing.
A missing report was registered by the local Sarni police station. Then a door-to-door search operation started while another police team rushed to the railway station. Police investigated if the child was dragged away by an animal but there was no such evidence.
At 9 pm, the SDOP of the area Abhishek Rajan reached the spot and directed that the house including its drainage system be searched. After three hours, the baby's body was fished out of the septic tank. After continuous interrogation of family members and the domestic helps, the mother finally broke down before the police. After her arrest, she was produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody.
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