Uttar Pradesh: Saas gifts Honda City car to bahu for giving birth to girl child

Lucknow: In a state where female feticide is common in the rural interiors, this mother-in-law deserves to be lauded. Prema Devi, a retired inspector from the health department of Uttar Pradesh, has acquired a celebrity status in Hamirpur district after she gifted a luxury car to her daughter-in-law when the latter gave birth to a baby girl.

Prema, who gifted a Honda City car to her daughter-in-law, says that daughters are better than sons. She also hosted a small party with Khushboo, her daughter-in-law, to welcome the baby girl in the family.

“The practice of female infanticide in India will only end after daughters-in-laws are treated as daughters. They are someone else’s daughters as well. If daughters-in-law are loved the way daughters are loved, they bring joy to home,” she told reporters.

Khushbo, on the other hand, is overjoyed to have a mother-in-law like Prema. She said that in order to bring a change in society, women must first learn to love and respect each other that way her mother in law does. Even daughter-in-laws must love their mother-in-laws like their own mother, she added.

Meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by the husband of her tuition teacher and later her body thrown in a pond, police said.
The crime was committed yesterday in Purnagiri locality under city Kotwali police station here. The body of the victim was recovered on Sunday.

The girl, a class 6 student, had gone for tuition after her school, but did not return home prompting her family members to go to Kohena police station. But, as their complaint was not registered, they began a search on their own and found her bag and slippers near a pond. Later, when police arrived, the class 6 student’s body was found in a sack submerged in the water.