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A man has been arrested by murder of his two four-year-old twin daughters in the state of Telangana, in the southern India, a crime that the police directly link to the persistent “preference for the male child” within the family, confirmed this Tuesday Efe the local police.
The event occurred on April 3, when the accused, a 28-year-old computer scientist, allegedly He threw the minors into a well and tried to fake an accident.
The deputy commissioner of the local police, Vijay Kumarinformed Efe that, according to the initial thesis, the The crime was planned together with the suspect’s brother and the girls’ paternal grandparents.who have also been arrested on charges of complicity in infanticide.
Violence against girls and selective abortions
The victims’ mother reported that The harassment and death threats began during her pregnancy, when her husband unsuccessfully pressured her to undergo a selective abortion.
This case reopens the debate on the systemic violence against girls in India, where the infanticide and abandonment continue to be the most violent manifestation of a historical demographic imbalance.
“The mother is also a victim of this system of continued abuse”, Kumar stressed, highlighting that the case is not an isolated incident, but a symptom of the fragility of the rights of women and children in rural and urban environments in the country.
The son perpetuates the lineage
In India, especially in more traditional families, the birth of male children is preferred and this is due, among other things, to the fact that the son is the one who perpetuates the lineage, he inherits the property, and takes care of his parents in their old age.
In the case of the girlsthese go to to belong to the husband’s family after marriage and their parents are usually forced to pay large dowries.
The last census in the country, carried out in 2011, revealed that there was a growing gap between the number of boys and girls between zero and six years old, which would be caused by the “selective abortion of female fetuses”, revealed a study published by The Lancet that same year.
The magnitude of the problem led India to prohibit revealing the sex of the fetus to families or requesting such a service in 1994.
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