In a horrific incident, a woman and her paramour allegedly slit the throat of her minor daughter after she found out about their affair and threatened to tell her father in East Delhi’s Ghazipur area, police said on Thursday.
The six-year-old girl was found dead, her throat slit at the terrace of her neighbour’s house in East Delhi’s Ghazipur Dairy farm in the late hours of Wednesday night. A senior police official of the East district said they have detained the minor girl’s mother and her paramour. “As per the preliminary investigation, woman had confessed that her daughter had seen her with her lover a couple of days back. She had threatened to tell her father about her mother’s affair. Fearing that she will be exposed, the mother hatched plan to kill her daughter,” said the officer.
On Wednesday night, the minor girl had reportedly gone with her two siblings to watch TV at her neighbour’s house at 9 pm. “When the girl went out and did not return for one-and-a-half hours, her family started searching for her everywhere. It was later that they found her bleeding profusely. The victim, a Class-I student in a Government school, was found with her throat slit on the terrace of the building.
The senior officer added, “During the investigation, all the eight families residing in the building were questioned. When the mother of the victim was questioned, she changed her statements, making cops suspicious. During sustained questioning, cops found that the girl’s mother was having an extra-marital affair.”
Initially, the Ghazipur police team had suspected witchcraft to be one of the motives behind the murder. One of the siblings, a two-and-a-half-year old boy had allegedly told police that his sister was called out of the house by a shadow.
Police said they have sent the body for autopsy. So far, police has denied that the minor girl was sexually assaulted but are waiting for the post-mortem reports and accordingly will add IPC Sections. Police had registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC at the Ghazipur police station.