TN: Woman attempts suicide after killing 6-year-old daughter

TIRUVANNAMALAI: A 28-year-old woman who was suffering from

depression

for the past year, attempted to end her life after murdering her six-year-old daughter by slitting her

throat

at

Keezhsirupakkam village

in

Tiruvannamalai district

on Sunday evening.

A senior police officer said Suganya, 28, was living with her husband Kalaiarasan, 35, a farmer, and their daughter

Nivetha

. A year ago, her mother in-law committed suicide by hanging herself inside the bathroom. Suganya was the one to discover her and had been suffering from depression ever since.

On Sunday evening, Kalaiarasan on returning from his farmland, couldn’t find his wife and daughter. When he went in search of them in the bathroom located in the backyard, he found his wife and daughter lying in a pool of blood with a knife in Suganya’s hand. On hearing his cries for help, neighbours rushed in and sent the two to Government Tiruvannamalai medical college and hospital.

The doctors declared Nivetha dead and referred Suganya, who was battling for her life with her throat slit, to a government hospital in Chennai. A case has been registered against Suganya under Section 302 (Punishment for murder). Further investigations are on.


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