Woman Killed For Mothering 3 Girls

The women who have committed the crime of carrying girl children are paying dearly. In 3 separate incidents within a week, women were murdered by inebriated husbands for giving birth to girls.

Andhra Pradesh may boast of economical and technological developments, but it lags behind miserably in the sector of social development. The men who were unable to bribe their way to sex-selective abortions resort to killing their wives upon the delivery of a girl child.

Sridevi, a resident of Kancharapalem, Visakhapatnam, is the latest victim of the wide-spread discrimination against women. Having borne 3 girls, she incurred the wrath of her labourer husband, Suribabu. The couple were married for 8 years, and Suribabu started tormenting his wife 3 years ago, when she delived twin girls.

He murdered her on Friday evening in an intoxicated state, and fled his house at around 6am on Saturday morning. He is currently absconding.

The locals alerted the police, who reached the scene of crime to find Sridevi sprawled on a bed with a strangulated neck. A sheet of cloth was noticed hanging from the ceiling fan, which roused doubts if the culprit had attempted to pass off the murder as suicide. It appears that Suribabu tried to have his wife's corpse dangling from the ceiling fan, but was unable to do so, and fled the house instead.

The neighbours of the couple and the victim's relatives have informed the media that Suribabu regularly subjected his wife to domestic violence after consuming liquor, and that quarrels were frequently audible.

However, the police refuse to declare the crime as homicide until after the post-mortem examination of the victim is done. They are giving Suribabu the benefit of the doubt. Also, they refuse to accept the possibility of the crime being the result of the culprit's discrimination against his daughters.