Woman arrested for killing 3 year old daughter in Odisha
Woman arrested for killing 3 year old daughter in Odisha: A 26 year old woman has been arrested on charges of killing her minor daughter at Mugpal village in Kuakhia police station area of Odisha’s Jajpur district, police said. Sony Behera, the accused dumped her three-year-old girl, Barsha, in a pond on Saturday night, said Kuakhia police station Inspector-in-Charge Ashis Kumar Sahu. The woman was arrested after she confessed to her crime. Behera’s husband was not at home when the incident happened, Sahu said. The couple had two children--a six-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter. “Behera’s son was sleeping with her grandmother in a separate room when she sneaked out of home with Barsha before flinging her into a pond,” said Sahu. The next morning, she left for her paternal home, where she apparently confessed to have killed her girl. Her family and locals recovered the child’s body from the pond and Behera’s mother-in-law filed a complaint with the local police. “Behera has been arrested under Section 302 of the IPC. She confessed to the crime and disclosed that she was upset about an argument that she had with her husband the day before,” Sahu added. -PTC News
