Woman arrested for killing step daughter in Karnataka's Bidar
Bidar (PTI): A woman has been arrested on charges of killing her six-year-old step-daughter by pushing her from the third floor of the building they were residing in, police said on Monday.
The incident occurred on August 27 in Adarsh Colony here, they said.
The accused woman, Radha, who is in her 20s, allegedly deliberately pushed the girl identified as Shanvi from the open terrace on the third floor of the building, and projected her cause of death as an accident, police said.
The girl's father Siddhant trusting his second wife's version of the incident filed a report with the Gandhi Ganj police station on August 28 stating that his daughter died after she allegedly slipped and fell from the third floor of the building, a senior police officer said.
However, the involvement of the girl's step-mother Radha came to light on Saturday after a neighbour found a footage of the incident captured in the CCTV camera installed in their vicinity, he said.
In the CCTV footage, according to police, Radha was seen walking suspiciously on the open terrace with the girl and seen deliberately pushing her off.
After examination of the CCTV footage and detailed investigation, a case of murder was registered on the complaint of the deceased's grandmother against the accused woman and she was arrested in this regard, a senior police officer said.
The deceased's mother had passed away in 2019 due to an illness, following which Siddhant, after a few years, married Radha, police said.
Siddhant and Radha have twin children from their marriage and during interrogation, she told police that she killed her step-daughter as she wanted the property to be divided only among her own children, they added.
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Yadgir: Six people burnt alive in private bus-car collision on Bidar-Bengaluru Highway in Surapura
Surapura: In a tragic road accident reported from the taluk, six people were burnt alive in a collision between a private bus and a car on the Bidar-Bengaluru Highway near the Shanthapura Cross close to the Thinthani Bridge on Friday morning.
A fire broke out due to the force of the collision, and both vehicles were gutted in the flames.
The bus is learned to have been traveling from Lingasugur to Kalaburagi, and the car was going towards Lingasugur. While none of the passengers in the bus was reportedly endangered in the accident, all six people traveling the car died in the accident and are learned to have burnt in the fire.
The local fire brigade has successfully doused the flames.
Inspector Umesh M and team of the Surapura Police Station is learned to have arrived at the accident spot and conducted an inspection.
The skulls of four people are said to have been found among the debris.
