Maid, who is the mother of three children, strangles the child to death
The mystery behind the disappearance of a girl was unravelled on Wednesday when the Saroornagar police caught a maid who had allegedly abducted and murdered the child to steal her two gold earrings weighing 1.5 gram.
Along with the maid, Laxmi, 32, her husband, Raju, accused of abetting her and screening the evidence, too was arrested. Four-year-old G. Ramya Sree, was loitering near her house at Katikonikunta in Champapet of Saroornagar on June 1 when she went to the neighbouring house of Laxmi.
“The maid-mother of three children- set eyes on the tiny tot's gold earrings and called her inside. She gagged the unsuspecting girl and took her to old city in an auto-rickshaw,” the Saroornagar Inspector, A.V.R. Narasimha Rao, said. The woman strangled the child to death with a nylon rope near a graveyard in Mohammednagar of Bhavaninagar and collected the earrings. Later, she dumped the body in a nala and returned home. The girl's parents approached the police in the night after searching the area for the child. Two days later, the police brought the maid to police station for questioning when the girl's father, G. Suresh Kumar, a mechanic, raised suspicions over her possible complicity. Laxmi, however, claimed she was innocent. Her husband, Raju, who returned from Nellore, too was summoned to the station. “While feigning innocence with us, she revealed to her husband that she had eliminated the girl, asking him to sell the earrings which she hid in the house,” the police said. Raju hatched a plan to mislead the police. He went to Bhavaninagar area and made a telephone call to the girl's father. Claiming as well-wisher, he told Kumar that he saw the girl in Bhavaninagar area.
As the call was traced to a public telephone booth, investigators grilled its owner about the facial features of the caller which matched with that of Raju. The telephone booth owner confirmed that the caller was Raju when the police took the latter to him.
During interrogation, Raju spilled the beans about his wife's involvement. Based on Laxmi's confession, the police retrieved the decomposed body of the girl from the nala. Relatives and family members of the girl staged a demonstration before the police station demanding serious action against the accused couple. Traffic was held up on the Dilsukhnagar main road for over an hour due to the agitation.
Keywords: gold earrings, murder, death, abduction, agitation, demosntration, investigation
This gruesome incident only confirms one thing that all shining is gold and a gold-led lifestyle.Perhaps its now the time to abandon this metal and go for something else.There are too many incidents that relate to this and INDIANS need to change their mental-lity.This ornamental metal need not be causing so much of grief as this case showed.
God. This is so cruel. My heart is pounding. It is going to be pain
for the parents for their life. Am at loss of words.
Prasad, your comment is spot on. There are deep-seated and pervasive problems in Indian society that cut across all barriers of religion, caste and class. Yet this seems to prompt very little reflection. As to the photo and caption, I too have pointed out in the past that the choices of photographs, captions and even headlines do not reflect the maturity one expects from a newspaper like the Hindu.
Like the gold price rise, gap between the rich and poor are also rising. And the rich take the poor for granted-employing them for house hold work with low pay. The houses may be worth lakhs with valuable items where as the maid not even able to have the end meets!!! Maids are also humans and government policies are testing their extremes.
When will we Indians get over our greed for gold? Murdering an innocent little child for gold. Why do Indians buy and wear so much gold, even putting gold jewelry on little children, leaving us open to all kinds of crimes?
Kin of the four-year-old girl wailing in city on Wednesday?
The Hindu needs to come up with better captions!
Human greed in the most evil form! Why did the woman kill the girl ?.
She could have just taken the earrings and let her go and thus satiated her greed!
The woman, if proven guilty, must be given exemplary punishment.
Now, if the court orders capital punishment to her, what will happen to her three children?
Such a tragedy over so little. As a society, are our priorities this much out of order?And to the Hindu editor/reporter: shame on you for such a callous photo and caption. Are these people not human and don't they deserve the minimum privacy and dignity afforded in what is very likely the worst moment of their lives?
Why kill the four year old? How hard must it be to overpower a little child and take the gold? What is more unnerving is - A husband and wife with the same type of conscience? Their horrorscopes must match perfectly. Now let us give them a sound thrashing together in public till they die.
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