Overview

• TSR jawan Rathindra Debbarma was arrested on August 10 in Khowai district after allegedly giving his one-year-old daughter poison-laced cold drinks and citing resentment over having a second girl.
• Suchitra Debbarma was detained on August 11 in Sepahijala district after neighbours found her five-month-old’s body and she confessed to strangling the infant to elope with her extramarital partner.
• Both suspects appeared before local courts this morning and remain in custody pending further investigation.
• Police have ordered post-mortems and forensic examinations in both cases to confirm exact causes of death and establish the motives behind the killings.
• Investigators note that filicide in India often arises from gender preference and social pressures, and they are increasingly relying on community tip-offs and forensic analysis to detect such crimes.