Amritsar, April 17: India's shameful and sordid story of unwanted daughters continues. In the latest incident, a woman in Amritsar was allegedly strangled to death by her husband after she gave birth to a baby girl for the third time.
35-year-old Paramjit Kaur's husband had been very upset over having two daughters. Desperate to have a boy, the birth of a girl again angered him so much that he reportedly tortured and killed his wife in a fit of rage.
Police have arrested the accused and filed a case against his family.
The horrific incident is just one among several cases of strong biases against the girl child in Punjab which is reflected in crimes against women and female foeticide and infanticide. Despite promises of action by authorities and extensive media coverage, these crimes continue unabated in a state, which is next only to Haryana as having the lowest sex-ratio in the country.
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