India: Father arrested for killing newborn twin daughters

India capital of New Delhi I police a man to his newborn twin daughters Murder Arrested for doing

Neeraj Solanki, 32, was arrested from the neighboring state of Haryana, Delhi Police said on Wednesday, following being on the run for over a month. He has been charged with murder.

Indian broadcaster NDTV reports that Neeraj is accused of killing and burying the newborn twins because his family was ‘unhappy’ with his wife giving birth to girls. His family wanted a boy instead of a girl.

The police started an investigation into the murder of the three-day-old baby girl following receiving a tip-off on June 3.

The caller, identified as a relative of the accused, claimed that Neeraj killed the two girls and buried them in a crematorium.

The remains of the girls were exhumed on June 5 and sent for post-mortem before they were handed over to their maternal uncles.

A case was registered once morest Neeraj following an official complaint by his wife.

The Indian Express reported that the girls were taken away from their mother shortly following birth, who was later said to have died of the disease.

In the police complaint, the woman also alleged harassment by her in-laws for dowry since her marriage in 2022.

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According to reports, they also had to undergo tests to determine the sex of the children before birth.

In India, this test has been banned since 1994 to prevent miscarriage of girls.

According to Indian laws, doctors and health workers are prohibited from providing parents with information regarding the sex of their babies before birth.

Police failed to trace Neeraj for a month as he kept changing his mobile SIM card and whereregardings to evade arrest.

After the arrest of the accused, the police say that Neeraj has confessed to killing his newborn girls.

A 2022 report by the American think tank ‘Pew Research Center’ states that at least 9 million girls have gone ‘missing’ in India since 2000 as a result of being killed by their parents.

According to the National Family Health Survey, India’s sex ratio at birth has increased from 918 in 2014-15 to 933 in 2022-23.