A 23-year-old tribal woman allegedly killed her 4-year-old daughter and then died by suicide following a fight with her husband in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Monday at Sisne village in Dahanu area.
The woman’s husband, a fisherman, used to be frequently away from the family, an official from Kasa police station said.
He returned home on Sunday and went out with his friends.
His wife was annoyed as he had not taken her with him and this led to a quarrel between them, the official said.
On Monday, the woman allegedly strangled her daughter to death and later hanged herself from the ceiling of her house, he said.
After being alerted by neighbours, police rushed to the spot and initiated a probe into the incident.
The bodies were sent for a post-mortem, the police added.
In other news,
Raipur: A 26-year-old woman was allegedly killed by a 30-year-old man, believed to be her lover before he committed suicide on a railway track in Raipur, police said on Sunday, citing preliminary investigation.
The body of Vani Goyal was found inside a hotel room, while Vishal Garg (30) was lying dead on the railway track near Urkura railway station earlier in the day.
Family members of Goyal, a resident of Saraswati police station area, had lodged a missing complaint on Saturday, following which police launched a search, an official said.
“Goyal’s mobile location was tracked in Nagpur in neighbouring Maharashtra, following which a police team rushed there. Police personnel found her mobile phone but could not locate her,” he said.
Meanwhile, Garg’s body was found on a railway track near Urkura railway station under Khamtarai police station limits, he said.
Garg was a resident of Ambikapur city in Surguja district.
Subsequently, police received inputs that Goyal was lying dead on the floor of a room at Hotel Babylon Inn in the Jail Road area of Raipur, the official said.
The preliminary investigation suggests that the woman was thrashed and strangled to death, he said, adding that the exact cause of death will be identified in the postmortem report.
Documents and CCTV footage show that the duo checked in inside the hotel at around 1:30 pm on Saturday.
“Preliminary investigation suggests that Garg allegedly murdered the woman before committing suicide. However, investigation into the case is underway,” he added.
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