Telangana: Poverty-stricken man kills kid, says couldn’t feed three children

TNN | May 2, 2020, 06:14 IST

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HYDERABAD: A thirty-yearold farmer in the tribal hamlet of Gonguluru in Sanga Reddy district slit his four-year-old daughter’s throat with a kitchen knife and killed her. He told cops during interrogation that he killed the girl because he had two more children and was not sure he would be able to feed all three in the future.
Police officials added that Jeeva (30) was poor and had accumulated a substantial debt. The lockdown only worsened their financial condition, cops said.
District police officials said Jeeva and his family were sleeping on two different mats in front of their hut on Thursday night. While Jeeva, his wife and their son were sleeping on one mat, the two daughters were on the adjacent mat along with their aunt.
Family members noticed blood stains on Jeeva’s body
At around 10.30pm Jeeva suddenly started shouting and woke up his family. He said their daughter was not seen anywhere and everyone should start looking for her. “Jeeva was holding a stick in his hand when he woke up his family. The girl’s body was found in a pool of blood just a little away from the hut,” DSP Sreedhar Reddy told TOI.
He added that family members noticed that Jeeva had blood stains on his body. When they questioned him, he gave vague answers. He was later taken into custody by the cops and confessed that he had killed the girl. “During the interrogation, the accused said that he did not know what he was doing as he was in financial distress. Besides, he said that he found it difficult to take care of three children,” a cop said.