A woman strangled her 3-year-old daughter to death after a fight with her husband in Maharashtra’s Nagpur and walked around for about 4 km with the body before informing the police about the incident.
The incident took place on Monday evening in the MIDC police station limits, police said.
The accused has been identified as Twinkle Raut (23). She moved to Nagpur with her husband, Rama Laxman Raut aged 24, four years ago in search of employment, PTI reported.
The couple worked at a paper products company and lived in a room on the firm’s premises on Hingna Road in the MIDC area. According to the police, their relationship was marked by frequent quarrels stemming from mutual distrust.
According to the police, the couple had a fight at around 4 pm on Monday. Amid the heated exchange, their daughter began crying. In a fit of rage, the woman took the daughter out of the house. She throttled the child to death under a tree, the police said.
At around 8 pm, she spotted a police patrolling vehicle and informed the security personnel about the incident. The police took the child to a hospital where doctors declared her dead.
