A mother of four daughters in Padra committed suicide allegedly due to severe harassment by her husband and mother-in-law for not giving birth to a male child.

The 27-yera-old victim, Kapila Mali’s, the body was fished out from a canal near Sangma village in the evening.

Following a complaint lodged by her mother Sharda, police detained Mali’s husband Babu and mother-in-law Ganga were detained on Thursday for driving her to suicide. The couple’s youngest daughter is three months old while the eldest is eight.

When Mali was pregnant with her fourth child, Babu, who does not work, had asked her to kill their daughters and end her life too if the fourth child also turns out to be a baby girl. As Mali facing severe mental torture during the crucial stage of pregnancy, her mother Sharda brought her to her home in Kalali.

Just before the delivery of the fourth child, Sharda took Mali to her in-laws’ home at Sangma village in Padra and the two families reached a settlement. But when she delivered a baby girl, Babu and Ganga again started harassing her due to which Sharda had to go and visit her daughter several times.

During one of her visits, Mali told her mother that time and again Ganga too used to ask her to consume poison to end her life. After the intervention of Mali’s mother, the situation would subside but would flare up again after a few days.

On Wednesday afternoon, when the couple had a heated argument, Mali left home in anger. “Before leaving, she told her husband that she will jump in the canal and end her life. Despite her threat, no one in the house stopped her. In the evening, her body was found by the villagers in the canal,” said sub-inspector P T Jaiswal of Padra police station.

“We will formally arrest them after the Covid tests,” said Jaiswal. The daughters are now with Sharda.

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