Woman kills daughter, ends life in Banda

Kanpur: Due to a dispute in family, a 28-year-old woman committed suicide after killing her two-year-old daughter in Chilla locality under the Kotwali police station of Banda district on Tuesday morning.
According to police, Rajni first killed her daughter Shalini and hanged her, at their home in Chilla locality under Kotwali police station and then committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan hook.
Villagers told the police that her husband Shivdas had married another woman, owing to which Rajni used to quarrel with him on regular basis. “When Shivdas, who had gone somewhere returned home on Tuesday morning, he found Shalini and their daughter bodies from the ceiling of one of the rooms of the house,” police said quoting the local people.
In-charge Kotwali police station Ramshray Singh said investigations are underway into the incident. He said that after getting the autopsy report, the scientific details of the death would be known. “We have taken the woman’s husband into custody and are questioning him to ascertain the exact reasons that prompted his wife to resort to extreme step,” he added.