VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh police arrested a 34-year-old woman who allegedly killed her 16-year-old daughter for her continued relationship with a man from a different caste, in Tirupati district.
DSP Betapudi Prasad said the girl was in a relationship with a 20-year-old man for over three years. Despite resistance from their respective families, the couple married last year. The girl’s mother filed a police complaint against the man, resulting in his arrest under Pocso Act & imprisonment.
The girl, who had become pregnant, was forced by the mother to undergo an abortion. The man was released on bail a month ago. On April 4, the girl tried to call him over phone. In a fit of rage, the mother forced her daughter onto her lap, pressed her nose and mouth shut with her hands, causing her death by asphyxiation. Within hours of the murder, the mother cremated the body along the banks of Swarnamukhi river.
The hasty cremation raised suspicion, and on April 9, the village revenue officer lodged a police complaint. As police probe began, the mother fled from her house. But on Friday she surrendered before a village elder confessing that she acted out of a combination of rage, fear, and social pressure.
