Uttar Pradesh: Man Smashes Daughters’ Heads, Sets Them Afire

Two girls died on the spot while one passed away during treatment

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a man killed his three daughters and set them on fire in Uttar Pradesh. The incident took place in Veer village of Lalitpur district on Tuesday morning.

Police said that the man smashed his daughters’ heads with a hammer and then set them on fire. Two girls died on the spot while one passed away during treatment at a medical facility.  The girls were aged 10, 7 and four years.

Superintendent of Police O.P. Singh said the man, who has been arrested, confessed to his crime. After smashing their heads with an iron hammer, the man used the gas of the LPG cylinder to set the girls on fire.

Singh said that the man was a habitual alcoholic.  As his wife had left for her parents’ place with two other daughters on Diwali, he killed the girls probably out of frustration, police suspected.

In April, a man had killed his daughter in Meerut as he could not accept her marriage. Accused Noor Mohammad thrashed his daughter with an iron rod and allegedly killed her as he could not accept her marriage. Mohammad’s 20-year-old daughter Sahiba had eloped with 22-year-old Naseer and later married. Following Sahiba’s elopement, Mohammad had lodged a complaint stating that his daughter had been kidnapped at the Inchauli police station.

Inchauli police station Station House Officer (SHO) Pankaj Sharma had said that they caught the couple and brought them to the family after which Mohammad, Sahiba’s father promised to send his daughter away to Naseer. Sharma had said, “No action was taken against Naseer as the woman’s father agreed to withdraw the complaint.”

(With agency inputs)