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Odisha woman gets lifer for killing infant son

A court in Mayurbhanj, Odisha sentenced Parbati Naik to life imprisonment for the murder of her infant son. Convicted by Rairangpur Additional District and Sessions Judge V Sujata, the crime occurred after a family dispute in Bankidihi village. The incident was reported on September 10 last year, leading to her arrest following an FIR by the child's father.

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Odisha woman gets lifer for killing infant son

A court in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Friday sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for killing her one-and-a-half-month-old son.

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Rairangpur Additional District and Sessions Judge V Sujata convicted 30-year-old Parbati Naik and awarded her life sentence for killing her son following a quarrel with her husband.

The woman, the second wife of a resident of Bankidihi village under Bisoi police station, strangulated her son to death and threw the body in a pond behind their residence.

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The incident occurred on September 10 last year when her husband went to a market and the first wife of her husband went to the paddy field.

The father of the deceased child lodged an FIR at Bisoi police station, following which Police registered a murder case and arrested the mother.

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