Farm labourer kills infant daughter in fight with his wife

Rajkot: A six-month-old girl became a victim of a bitter altercation between her parents as her father clubbed the infant to death by hurling her on the bed and slamming a wooden bat on her tender head.
The macabre incident happened in Manaba village of Morbi district’s Maliya-Miyana taluka late on Thursday night.
Police have detained the 37-year-old assailant Kalamsinh Baviya alias Kamlesh, who has been living with his wife Sangeeta and four children in the village for the last four years. He works as a farm labourer.
On Thursday, Baviya returned from his native village in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh and went to fetch Sangeeta who had gone to stay with her brother Sapit with her three daughters and son. But ever since he returned, Baviya was keeping aloof and not talking to anyone.
The two families including Sapit’s had dinner together around 7:30pm. At around 9pm, Sangeeta casually inquired with her husband about the reason for his quietude. Baviya suddenly got furious and a bitter fight broke out between the couple.
Scared of his abnormal temper, Sangeeta picked up her six-month-old daughter Savina and started rushing out to escape his wrath.
“Baviya however snatched Savina from her hands, threw her on the bed and hit her head with a bat. The baby girl died on the spot,” said R B Tapariya, sub-inspector with Maliya-Miyana police station.
“We have detained Baviya. He will be formally arrested once he undergoes Covid-19 test,” added Tapariya.