Jun 4, 2012: Man burns 1.5-year-old with cigarette, held

TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 06.05AM IST

INDORE: In a brazen incident, a paramour of a woman burnt her one-and-half-year olddaughter with cigarette after beating and fracturing her hands in Khajarana area on Sunday.

Gulabsehra, elder daughter of the woman elder sister of the victim Shirin told to media that Wahid, a paramour of her mother had burnt her little sister continuously for two days in different parts of the body. She said that Wahid also beat her and the three-year-old brother Imran.

The incident took place after the mother of three, Shabana, left her husband's place 15 days ago to live with Wahid. After a week, Shabana was forced to go out and earn money for bread and butter. Wahid started torturing the three children in Shabana's absence due to which she had to admit her son to MY Hospital on Sunday.

The issue came to fore when Wahid and Shabana's husband who had come to visit his son, had a clash in the hospital.

Sources said that the police have arrested Wahid who has confessed his crime. However, police are not ready to say anything on the issue and no FIR was registered till the filling of the report.
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