Man buries his newly-born daughter alive because he expected male child
The baby was reportedly rescued by local villagers after they spotted her feet sticking up from a shallow pit in a farmland within the Jajpur district of the eastern state of Odisha.
The father of the child, Ramesh Chandra, was however, arrested by the police for attempted manslaughter.
The 35-year-old part-time taxi driver allegedly
took the baby from her mother soon after she was born
on Saturday.
A police officer, Jyoti Prakash Pande, told
reporters that, “They were unable to explain about the missing child after we
scanned the locality for expecting mothers.
Pande added that Chandra while been questioned
admitted burying the baby, saying he was too poor to raise a daughter.
The officer revealed that the couple already has
two daughters and a son and had aborted two earlier pregnancies.
It is unclear what will happen to the newborn,
named Dharitri by staff at the hospital where she is under observation.
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