A three-year-old girl was killed after her father allegedly threw her away in a fit of rage over his wife’s refusal to veil her face in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Tuesday, police said. The accused and his family later secretly performed the girl’s last rites, they added.
Prem Prakash, a local police officer, cited the complaint of the girl’s mother and added she alleged her husband was fighting with her for not covering her face when he started beating their daughter. The mother said when she rushed to save her daughter, her father threw her out of their room. She told police that her husband always insisted that she veiled her face.
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Prakash said the accused is absconding and efforts were being made to arrest him and others who cremated the girl. The mother has also lodged a complaint of dowry harassment. She said her family even gifted her in-laws a car on the birth of their daughter. She earlier twice lodged complaints related to dowry harassment but later withdrew them.