Woman arrested for ‘throwing her six children to their deaths into a well’
The woman, Runa Sahani, is from Uttar Pradesh but has been residing in Maharashtra for the past ten to twelve years. Sahani’s husband is a mason.
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The accused has been booked for murder and a magistrate court remanded her to police custody for four days.A 30-year-old woman who allegedly murdered her six children, all aged below 10 years, by throwing them in a well in a village in Mahad, Raigad district on Monday, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder.
The police said it’s unclear why she took such an extreme step but added that she had a fight with her husband a day before the incident.
The woman, Runa Sahani, is from Uttar Pradesh but has been residing in Maharashtra for the past ten to twelve years. Sahani’s husband is a mason. On Monday afternoon, she threw all her six children in a well in Dhalkathi village, police said. The property where the incident took place belongs to her husband’s previous employer.
The employer in the evening saw her near the well and questioned her, after which she said she threw all her children in the well, police said. The Mahad MIDC police were alerted and the bodies of all the children, Roshni, 10, Karishma, 8, Reshma, 6, Vidya, 7, Shivraj, 3, and Radha aged one-and-a-half years, were retrieved from the well.
She has been booked for murder and a magistrate court remanded her to police custody for four days.
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