Mother tries to murder leprosy affected daughter

A mother on Monday tried to kill her 17-year-old daughter in Seetha-ramapuram forest because the girl is suffering from leprosy and had become an obstacle for the marriage of her other two children.

The victim, Shaik Hasina, is the daughter of a fruit vendor, Mr Dastagiri of Kadapa town and a

Class VII student in a madrasa. On Monday, her mother, Parveen, and her mother’s friend, Mabu Peera, asked Hasina to accompany them to hospital for treatment and took her into the forest between Seetharamapuram and Porumamilla in YSR Kadapa district.

They strangled her using a chunni and also banged her face against a boulder after she lost conscious in a bid to disfigure her to prevent identification. They left the forest assuming that Hasina was dead.

Hasina, however, regained conscious on Tuesday morning when it started to rain and managed to reach the nearby ghat road. A passenger travelling in a bus saw her and alerted the 108 ambulance service and they in turn, informed the Seetharamapuram police.

The police rushed to the spot and shifted her to the government hospital in Udayagiri for treatment. Quoting the victim, the Duttalur sub-inspector,

Mr Shaik Ibrahim said that her mother and her friend wanted to eliminate her because marriage proposals were not coming for her brother and her sister because of her disease.

“The girl has also told us that her mother and Mabu wanted to eliminate her because she objected to their affair. We are not sure about this version because her speech is not clear due to the multiple injures she has suffered,” the SI said.