Gujarat woman held for beating 8-yr-old stepdaughter to death, say Valsad police

When she woke up in the evening, she found the girl lying at the same spot. Sensing something was wrong, she informed the neighbours and her husband, Nilesh Nehte who works in Mumbai, and took the girl to a hospital where she was declared brought dead.

On getting information from the hospital staff, officers from Dungra police station reached the hospital and first lodged a complaint of accidental death and sent the body for postmortem. The postmortem report which came on Thursday mentioned the cause of death as brain hemorrhage and also pointed to some injury marks on her head. Acting on the report, police lodged a murder complaint.

They also called Kavita, Nilesh to the police station and questioned them. The cops also questioned their neighbors.
Dungra police sub-inspector V G Bharwad said, “We had first registered an accidental death complaint, but later changed in to murder on the basis of the postmortem report. We have arrested Kavita based on the complaint filed by her husband. She admitted to her crime.”