Man booked for strangling 4-yr-old daughter to demise in Anand
The Anand district police Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old man for allegedly strangling his four-year-old daughter to demise at Mujkuva village in Anand district on Monday.
According to the case registered at Anklav police station in Anand, the accused, Shailesh Padhiyar, killed the lady in a match of rage by strangling her with a belt of her frock after fixed quarrels along with his spouse.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), Petlad division, RL Rathod stated the accused had misplaced his job through the Covid-19 lockdown, following which the couple started having bitter fights. On January 25 night, Padhiyar gathered a number of villagers, claiming that his daughter had not returned dwelling after her standard playtime within the neighbourhood. When the villagers started a search, they discovered the physique of the lady on the facet of a nullah passing by way of a subject, with the belt of her frock round her neck.
Solanki stated, “The accused is currently unemployed. He was working in a private company in Vadodara but lost his job during the lockdown. His wife is not an earning member. We have, so far, learnt that they had bitter fights and questioned each other’s character during their quarrels. In one of the fights, the wife told him that he was not the father of the daughter and she had conceived during another affair. This allegedly had enraged Padhiyar and he decided to kill the child. We are not investigating if the wife said it in her moment of anger or whether the girl was indeed not his biological daughter.”
Besides investigating the motive behind the crime, the police are additionally probing the couple’s age and the validity of their marriage. “Both of them are unable to recall the date or year when they married. They claim to have been married for six years but the accused has stated that he is only 23 years of age. The mother is still in a state of shock but we will ascertain the facts during the investigation,” Solanki stated. The post-mortem has concluded the lady died attributable to strangulation, he added.
Padhiyar has been booked underneath Indian Penal Code part 302 for culpable murder amounting to homicide.
