Kolkata: 22-year-old daughter held for killing man in Anandapur

Kolkata: A 22-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing her father at Chowbhaga Majhipara in Anandapur. The woman, Moumita Majhi, was angry as her marriage was called off after her father, Bapi, had misbehaved with her would-be in-laws. On November 2 last year, she found that her father, who was alone at home, was in physical discomfort. She took the chance and smothered her father to death. The victim’s wife Susama found him lying on the floor. Cops took him to Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital where he was declared brought dead.
This was the second instance in the recent past in the city where a daughter murdered her father. The first case was reported from Tangra where a woman had set her father ablaze at Chandpal Ghat in March this year.

The Chowbhaga case had not progressed much with the victim’s family accepting it as a natural death. The autopsy surgeon of NRS Hospital stated “the death was due to the effects of manual strangulation — the injuries were ante-mortem in nature and the manner was homicidal.”
After the elections ended on April 10, the top brass of police asked all divisional DCs to pursue all postmortem reports and ensure all cases were accounted for. In keeping with the post-mortem report, Anadapur police on April 24 registered a murder FIR pertaining to the death of Bapi. The woman was questioned for 72 hours and she broke down, confessing that she had killed her father. “Preliminary enquiry revealed that he was having a chest pain. He took some food, believing that the pain was due to acidity. He was taking rest at home while his wife and son went out for work. her daughter was alone at home. We questioned the daughter who admitted to the crime,” said a police officer.