Man held on charge of killing daughter in Pune

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PUNE: The Hinjewadi police on Saturday arrested a 35-year-old man from Kshatriyanagar in Bavdhan for throttling his five-month-old daughter to death.
"The murder was a fallout of a quarrel between the couple over the man’s illicit relationship," Anand Pagare, assistant inspector of the Hinjewadi police said. He said early on Saturday, Bapurao Jadhav throttled his daughter in her sleep and kept her outside the house. He then woke up his wife and enquired about his daughter, Pagare said.
After his wife and Jadhav went out in search of their daughter, she spotted her lying unconscious. The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced brought dead by doctors. Later, Jadhav admitted that he had killed his daughter.
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