Mumbai, April 25: The Shivaji Nagar police arrested a 45-year-old hawker for allegedly killing his 19-year-old daughter by banging her head on the walls of their Baiganwadi house on Sunday. Mohammed Kitabbuddin Shah committed the crime on learning that his daughter Tabbasum Shah and was not ready to get married to the boy he had selected for her in a village in Uttar Pradesh.
Initially the police recorded a case of accidental death. Shah misled the investigators saying his daughter's death could be because of TB and that she had died in her sleep. He cremated his daughter after the post-mortem was carried out on Sunday. However, he was nailed after the report showed the girl had died due to internal head injuries, the police said. Shah was picked up from his residence on Monday.
Shah said his daughter was in love with his tenant's son for the last three months and he was against their relationship. When Tabbasum refused to marry the boy of his choice Shah killed her.insistedlearnt that his daughter was seeing the youth he fixed his daughter's marriage in UP. "Shah had got the mail ticket booked to travel on April 25 to get his daughter married to a man of his choice who hails from their community. This led to frequent fights between the duo; father-daughter," said the investigators.
The matter worsened on Sunday morning when the accused assaulted her and banged her head on the wall killing her on the spot. "Shah waited till 5am and called his neighbours alarming them that his daughter is not responding and seek help to rush her to the hospital. However his luck ran short when the report showed the actual cause of death," said the investigators.
Shah is booked under for murder.
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