Woman dentist in Patan kills brother, 14-month-old niece

PALANPUR: A shocking case of a young woman doctor allegedly killing her elder brother and his 14-month-old daughter came to light in Patan town of north Gujarat on Wednesday.
Dentist Dr Kinnari Patel, 28, confessed to the family members that she had poisoned her 32-year-old brother Jigar on May 5 and his daughter Mahi on May 30. However, she did not reveal the reason for resorting to such brutality. During preliminary questioning by police, Dr Kinnari only said she was grappling with “some domestic problems.”
On Tuesday night, her father Narendra Patel, a businessman in Ahmedabad, approached the police after she confessed to the crime when grilled by the family members, who got suspicious seeing that she was completely unmoved by the twin deaths even as others had plunged into mourning.
In his complaint lodged with Patan’s B-division police station, her father said that Kinnari used to frequently fill the Jigar’s bottle with water boiled after mixing toxic datura seeds and glucose. Around six months ago, Jigar started complaining of frequent seizures in the body, dry throat and vision problems.
“We took him to the top private hospitals in Ahmedabad but his reports were normal. On May 4, me, my wife Madhu, Jigar and his wife Bhumi and Kinnari went to my elder’s brother’s house in Patan. Next day, when we were leaving for our native village Kalana to pray at our family deity temple, Jigar suddenly took ill and collapsed. He was rushed to hospital, but doctors there declared him dead on admission,” Patel said in his complaint.
Patel, an iron trader, and his family members often visited Patan as his two brothers as well as elder daughter Vandana lived there.
On May 30, Jigar’s wife Bhumi suddenly complained of uneasiness and was rushed to a private hospital by Patel’s nephew. Other family members stayed back home to take care of her daughter Mahi who was asleep in the cradle. Meanwhile, Kinnari told them that Mahi was having seizures. “We got scared and my brother’s wife Manjula picked her up and started leaving for hospital. But at the same time, when we were also leaving, I saw Kinnari following us smilingly. She and Manjula took Mahi to the hospital where she died after sometime,” Patel told the police.
Dr Kinnari’s parents and other relatives started getting increasingly suspicious of her as she remained unmoved by the deaths. Patel and other members then started questioning her tactfully and she confessed. “She confessed that she had stealthily administered poison to Jigar when he had collapsed on May 5 and killed Mahi in the same manner when she was sleeping in the cradle. She had even tried to poison Jigar’s wife on May 30, but she survived,” said police.
Police dug out the baby girl’s body from the crematorium and sent it to Ahmedabad for forensic postmortem.
In-charge police Inspector, RG Chaudhary, said, “We have arrested Dr Kinnari. She has not revealed much except that she was facing some domestic issues.”