Parents booked for killing infant girl in Mehsana

Palanpur: Death of a 33-day-old baby girl in Kadi town of Meshana in December 2019 has turned out to be a cold-blooded murder allegedly executed by none other than her own parents, who were yearning for a male child.
Baby girl Mishti’s parents had hospitalized her in a local hospital in December and told the doctors that she died due to suffocation while breast feeding.However, doctors there noticed some marks on Mishti’s neck and informed police that registered a case of accidental death.
The postmortem conducted in Ahmedabad revealed that she had been strangulated.
On Sunday, police lodged a complaint of murder against her parents Hardik Patel and Reena along with his parents.
“The postmortem was done by doctors at BJ Medical College and the report confirmed that she was strangled to death. Along with Hardik and Reena, we have also booked the infant’s grandparents Upendra Patel and Neeta Patel on charges of murder and crimnal conspiracy,” said R R Aahir, deputy superintendent of police, Mehsana, who is the complainant in this case.
Hardik works with a private company in Kadi and all four are on the run.
The couple, who lives in Karanpura area in Kadi, has a four-year-old girl Kreya. Reena gave birth to another girl child in November 2019 and she was named Mishti. Aahir said the couple was unhappy with the second girl child as they wanted a boy.