Mother jailed for killing one-month-old daughter

Staff Correspondent: A mother was sent to jail on charge of killing her one-month-old daughter in Mohanpur upazila of Rajshahi district on Tuesday.

Sources said that the mother named Jahura Begum alias Meghna, 22 strangulated her third daughter to death on Monday afternoon.

Later, police recovered the body and sent it to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital for autopsy. The law enforcers also arrested the woman, wife of Habibur Rahman of Chanduria village in Tanore upazila, after victim’s grandfather Mafiz Uddin filed a case over the murder.

SM Abul Quashem, officer-in-charge of Mohanpur Police Station, said the mother went to his father's home couple of days ago. She was also suffering mental pressure as she gave birth to third baby girl. At one stage, she killed her new born baby.



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