Raipur: Grinding poverty led a tribal woman in a Chhattisgarh town to unleash her frustration on her sick 10-month-old daughter by lynching her, the police said on Sunday.
The incident occurred in the district headquarters town of Jashpur in north Chhattisgarh.
According to Jashpurnagar Kotwali police station in-charge G.S. Dubey, Jebita Ekka, 28, was in a foul mood after not being able to arrange the money needed to secure bail for her husband, who was arrested on charge of theft four months ago. She was also frustrated by the lack of money to pay the rent and the electricity bill.
She had also no money to take her ailing infant to a doctor for treatment.
On September 23, the sick child started crying inconsolably. Jebita first gave her a few slaps on the face to make her stop crying. Later, she started hitting the child’s head with a wooden plank, killing her on the spot.
She was spotted by family members crying before body of the infant. They later reported the matter to the police. The woman, however, initially denied that she killed her child, saying that a cat tore upon her daughter.
(This story originally appeared in the Asian Age)
