Circle Officer said the incident took place around 8 am under the Chanda police station area
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Police in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur on Tuesday said that a 35-year-old woman slit her nine-year-old daughter's throat with a knife in the Vivek Nagar area, PTI reported.
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Circle Officer Lambhua Mohammad Salam said the incident took place around 8 am under the Chanda police station area. The victim was identified as Paridhi.
He said the mother, Priyanka Ojha, was mentally ill and undergoing treatment.
Salam added that after the attack, Paridhi was taken to a community health centre in Lambhua which referred her to a medical college in Sultanpur.
The child succumbed to injuries on the way to the medical college, he said.
The woman was detained and the body of the deceased sent for a post-mortem examination, police said.
In a separate case, earlier on June 10, police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh said that a man allegedly killed his lover and hid her body in a tank at his under-construction house, news agency PTI reported. The body of Raj Kesar (35) was recovered on Friday from the house of the accused, Arvind, in Mahewa locality under the Yamunapar Karchhana police station area here, they told PTI. Arvind killed Kesar about a fortnight ago and hid her body in a tank at his house, Station House Officer (SHO) Vishwajeet Singh said. On May 30, Kesar's family reported her missing. Based on the call details of her phone, Arvind was taken into custody and interrogated. The body was recovered at his instance, the SHO said.
Earlier on June 7, a 56-year-old man was arrested by the Naya Nagar police for murdering his 32-year-old live in partner at Mira Road. According to the police, the woman was murdered two to three days ago. The occupants of the building got a foul smell emanating from one of the flats and alerted the cops. The police said that they found the woman’s body cut into pieces. The deceased has been identified as Saraswati Vaidya, 32, while her-live in partner is one Manoj Sahani, 56. Both were living in the J wing of Geeta Akash Deep Building for the past five years. When the police broke open the door of the flat, they found Sahani inside and the woman’s body in pieces on the floor of one of the rooms.
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