Dad drowns two daughters for lack of means to raise them
A father of three has murdered his two daughters by drowning them in a well in a village near Vellore. Later, confessing to the crime, the leather worker said he did it because he did not have the means to raise them although he had spared his four-month-old son.
An employee of a leather shoe-making unit in Melvisaram village in Vellore district, Mohamed Ali, 30, had approached the Arcot taluk police at 11 am on Tuesday and lodged a complaint that his baby girls, Taniya Tashiba, 3 and Ghaziya Nashiba, 2 were missing from his house since morning.
Superintendent of police TS Anbu said a complaint was lodged and investigations conducted, during which family members informed them that they had spotted two strangers on a motorbike near their residence, and they suspected that their babies may have been kidnapped.
Later, police received information that bodies of the girls were found floating in an abandoned well, two kilometres from their house. Fire and rescue services personnel retrieved the bodies with the help of local villagers. The post-mortem revealed that the babies had succumbed due to drowning.
After inquiries, Police began to suspect that family members may have been involved in the crime. They soon narrowed down on Mohamed Ali and after a lengthy interrogation, he confessed to murdering his daughters.
“Our inquiries revealed that the babies were never comfortable with strangers. They would definitely have raised an alarm if a stranger tried to kidnap them. It was also not possible for the babies to have walked to the well themselves”, said Anbu.
Mohamed Ali said he had committed the murders because he did not have the means to raise them. However, he had spared his four-month-old son.
In his confessional statement, Ali admitted that he took his daughters on his motorbike and threw them into the well and returned home. He added that he lodged a complaint with Arnii taluk police an hour later that his daughters were missing.
Daily Trust Tuesday 18th January, 2011
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