Etawah, May 12 -- A five-month-old girl died after her father allegedly snatched her from her mother's lap and threw her during a domestic dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district, police said on Tuesday.
Senior Superintendent of Police Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said the incident took place on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in Biharipura village.
According to police, the accused, identified as Narayan, allegedly returned home drunk and started abusing and assaulting his wife Mohini alias Priyanka.
When she objected and asked him to remain quiet as the children were sleeping, an argument broke
out and escalated into violence, police said.
The accused allegedly first threw his three-year-old son Shivansh from a cot, injuring him, and then snatched his five-month-old daughter Divyanshi from his wife's lap and hurled her away.
The infant hit a wall and suffered severe head injuries, bleeding from her head and ears before dying on the spot, police said.
Villagers gathered outside the house after hearing the commotion, while the accused fled from the scene.
Police reached the spot after receiving information and sent the child's body for post-mortem examination.
Mohini told police that she married Narayan in
2023 after the death of her first husband, Satish, in a train accident in 2022. She alleged that Narayan had been frequently assaulting her following an affair with another woman.
Police said efforts are underway to trace the accused and further investigation is in progress.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.