A six-and-a-half-year-old girl was killed by her mother and her partner in east Delhi’s Ghazipur on Wednesday night, after the child reportedly saw them in a “compromising position”, police said.
Deputy commissioner of police (east), Omvir Singh, said that the 29-year-old woman and her partner, Sudhir, 23, were arrested on Thursday, after neighbours tipped off investigators about their affair.
“The couple planned to kill the girl after she threatened to inform her father,” said DCP Singh. The woman lived with her husband and three children, two sons and a daughter, near Ghazipur Dairy Farm in east Delhi. Her husband is a cart puller. The accused, Sudhir, a labourer, lived in the same neighbourhood.
“The woman had an extra marital affair with Sudhir for some time. She later planned the murder of her daughter with him after the child found them in a compromising position on Wednesday evening . The man slit the girl’s throat, while the mother held on to her hands. Both have confessed to their crime during interrogation,” said Singh.