Bengaluru: A 35-year-old woman allegedly strangled her three and half year-old autistic daughter to death and surrendered before the police, officials said on Saturday. The woman had twin girls, both of whom are autistic. While one of them is mildly autistic, the other one has severe autism, they said.
The accused is said to have killed her daughter with severe autism symptoms as she was concerned about her future.
According to police, the woman had on Thursday strangled her daughter to death. After killing her, she turned herself in at the Subramanya Nagar police station here.
Ramya is the wife of Venkatesh, a software engineer working in Norway. The couple hailing from Tamil Nadu had been staying in Bengaluru for the past 10 years. Their other daughter had joined preschool.
As per the preliminary investigation, Ramya strangled the child with her veil around 12.30 pm on Thursday and then called up her brother-in-law to inform him about the incident. She also rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital, but the child was declared “brought dead” by the doctors.
Even as her brother-in-law was yet to arrive, Ramya went to the police station and surrendered. Later her brother-in-law filed a complaint with the police. Ramya has been arrested by the police while the postmortem report is awaited.
