Unable to afford costly treatment for their six-month-old daughter, a daily-wage labourer and his wife strangled her to death and dumped her body in a ditch near their home, Tripura Police said Friday.<\/p>\n
Police Thursday arrested Laba Debnath, 53, the father of the ill-fated child, who confessed that he and his wife killed their baby girl Lina and later dumped her in a ditch near their Teliamura home in west Tripura, 55 km northeast of the state capital.<\/p>\n
<\/em><\/p>\n “Laba Debnath (the girl’s father) told us that the cost of his baby’s treatment was way beyond his means as the sole breadwinner and daily-wage earner having to fend for his five-member family,” the official said.<\/p>\n The family had sought the help of the village panchayat and the local administration, but to no avail.<\/p>\n (Source:IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unable to afford costly treatment for their six-month-old daughter, a daily-wage labourer and his wife strangled her to death and dumped her body in a ditch near their home, Tripura Police said Friday. Police Thursday arrested Laba Debnath, 53, the father of the ill-fated child, who confessed that he and his wife killed their baby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[24661,47776,47765,24663,47774,47775,23371,24660,24662],"class_list":["post-28788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-laba-debnath","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-parents-kill-baby-girl","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news","tag-tripura-police","tag-unable-to-afford-treatment"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nA police official, quoting the girl’s father, said: “The baby had tetanus and also suffered a haemorrhage. Doctors had prescribed medicines that cost Rs.1,500 each day; one injection was priced at Rs.900 per dose.”<\/p>\n