Mentally unstable mom kills daughter, arrested

Varanasi | Thursday | 21st February, 2019

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VARANASI: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her mentally unstable mother in Bairia area of Ballia district on Wednesday. A case was registered and she was arrested. Her throat was slit with some sharp edged weapon.On being questioned his wife Chinta Devi confessed that she attacked the girl with vegetable cutting tool. With the help of local residents he rushed the girl to Sonbarsa community health centre, where she was declared dead.The police reached there after getting information and sent the body for postmortem.Ballia SP Devendra Nath Dubey said that the woman was mentally disturbed. The police arrested the mother and booked her under section 304 ( culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of IPC.According to reports, a resident of Sansar Tola of Jaiprakash Nagar in Bairia area of Ballia district Rajbhooshan Yadav found his daughter Priya, a class 9 student, in a pool of blood when he returned home after morning walk..