Man kills infant by throwing her into drain, held

A 40-year-old man was arrested for allegedly throwing his one-and-ahalf-year-old daughter in a drain since she was keeping sick and would cry a lot.

The child’s body was recovered from the drain, almost 56 hours after her father, who claimed to be inebriated, had thrown her in the drain in southeast Delhi’s Jamia Nagar.

The police was informed on September 19 around midnight by one Mofida Begum (32) that her husband Rashid Zamal had kidnapped their daughter and taken her to a secret location.

After the police spoke to her, she told them that her husband was thrashing her in front of their three children — a teenage son, a four-year-old son and one-and-a-half-year-old daughter.

After thrashing his wife, he took to thrashing his two elder sons, but they ran away from there.

Since the time the daughter was born, she used to fall sick quite often and on the day when Zamal was beating his wife, the child was unwell and was crying, the police said.

Zamal, who was under the influence of liquor, was annoyed after hearing the child’s cries. He picked up the child and

◗ The child’s body was recovered from the drain, almost 56 hours after her father, who claimed to be inebriated, had thrown her in the drain in southeast Delhi’s Jamia Nagar

banged the child’s head multiple times against the floor of the shanty they stayed in.

His wife pleaded with him to stop, but he did not listen to her. She then ran out to get help from her neighbours, but the accused took the girl with him and ran away.

Mofida informed the police and a search operation for the accused and the child began.

After a few hours, the man was traced, but he did not recollect about the incident and told the police that he had left the child near one of the two drains running parallel to each other, the police said.

Meanwhile, the police sought help from the Delhi Fire Services, NDRF’s QRT divers to find the child. The divers searched for the child in the drain but the body was not found. On Thursday morning, the accused recalled about throwing the girl in the neighbouring drain after sustained interrogation.