A three-and-a-half-year-old speech-impaired child was killed by her mother, identified as Ramya (35), in Bengaluru’s Banashankari. As per the police, the woman strangled her daughter at their house with her dupatta.
According to the police, Ramya, who had twins, was depressed about one of them being autistic, as she also had to quit her job and stay home to take care of the child.
“The investigation revealed that the mother committed the act due to concerns about the child’s growth not being according to her age and being an autistic child. She was depressed about the child and thus it led her to take the step of killing the child,” said the police.
Ramya is the wife of Venkatesh, a software engineer working in Norway. The couple hailing from Tamil Nadu had been staying in Bengaluru for the past 10 years. Their other daughter had joined preschool.
As per the preliminary investigation, Ramya strangled the child with her veil around 12.30 pm on Thursday and then called up her brother-in-law to inform him about the incident. She also rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital, but the child was declared “brought dead” by the doctors.
Even as her brother-in-law was yet to arrive, Ramya went to the police station and surrendered. Later her brother-in-law filed a complaint with the police. Ramya has been arrested by the police while the postmortem report is awaited.
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