JAMMU: In a gruesome incident, throat-slit bodies of newborn twins were recovered from their house in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday.
Initially, the father of the female babies was detained for questioning while the bodies were shifted to a hospital for post-mortem.
Mendhar Sub-Divisional Police Officer Bhupinder Kumar said an information was received that bodies of two female twins were lying in the house of Mohd Khursheed at Chajjla-Keyani village and accordingly a team was rushed to the scene.
Three months ago Mohd Khursheed, who works in Saudi Arabia, returned home after a long time. Shortly after, as his wife gave birth to twins, he headed straight to the police and claimed that the children were born “from an illegitimate relationship”, NDVT reported.
The woman, fearing trouble, took her newborns to a nearby field and killed them, the police said.
After being questioned by police, the women confessed to the crime.
“It’s the mother who killed her twin baby daughters. She has confessed to the crime,” Yogul Manhas, Poonch’s Senior Superintendent of Police, told NDTV.
The incident spread panic in the area and locals demanded the harshest punishment for the mother. (With Inputs from PTI)
