MAN KILLED 6 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER FOR HONOUR. A man was arrested in north Kashmir’s Sopore for allegedly killing his minor daughter, police said. An eight year old girl who went missing from her Rafiabad home was found with her throat slit in an orchard after a she went missing. Police said Altaf Ahmad Rather of Laiser Rafiabad killed his daughter as he suspected that she was an illicit child. Altaf along with his elder brother Muhammad Maqbool Rather reported to police that his daughter Muskan Altaf has been missing from her home and they have been searching her in the village but failed to trace her. “On this a missing report was filed and search was started. In the process of search, on the next day throat slit body of the missing girl child was found in the apple orchard on the outskirts of the village Laisar,” a senior police officer said. . The police discovered that the girl was only four years old and they were miss informed by the family. The officer said that at the place of recovery of the body a sharp edged knife, a ten rupee currency note and an empty jute bag used to contain animal fodder were also recovered and preserved. He said that a special investigation team (SIT) was constituted to investigate the gruesome blind murder. “In the process of investigation a reasonable suspicion was developed against the father of the victim, who was called for questioning alongwith other relatives,” he said. He said that the girl was last seen in the company of her father and he was asked to explain the circumstances leading to her going missing and being subsequently murdered. “It was found from marriage and medical records, that the baby was born in less than nine months of the marriage of her parents. This made the father to suspect him not being her biological father. Over a period of time this developed into an extreme hatred. Another motive of killing his own daughter was his greed as he was expecting cash compensation from government once his daughter was discovered killed to put blame on militants for the reason that his wife was a Panch (village panchayat member),” he said. On the day of murder he sent his wife to take their son to a doctor for medical consultation. “Once his wife left, he took the girl in the outskirts in the apple orchard area where he choked her by blocking her nose and mouth with his hand and consequently she collapsed and died on spot,” the officer said. Thereafter, to mislead the police he slit the throat with a knife and concealed the body in a bag and hide it under the grass and bushes. The accused was arrested and circumstantial, scientific evidence corroborate his involvement in murder of his daughter, he said. ¤¤mir faisal¤¤
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:17:54 +0000
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