By IANS
Bhopal : Three children have been killed by their parents in two separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh, police officials said Thursday.
A woman, Malti, Wednesday burned alive her six-month-old son Abhishek and daughter Saloni aged two on a stove at their home in Harda district’s Dwip Kala village.
“She has been arrested from a nearby forest where she was hiding behind the bushes,” Harda police superintendent Akhilesh Kumar Jain said.
Malti told the police that she took the extreme step because her husband did not pay any attention to the family and she was unable to feed the children.
In another case, Prem Singh Kewat, a resident of Pipariya town in Hoshangabad district, Wednesday threw his nine-month-old son Lakhan and two-year-old daughter Rachna on a railway track because he believed they were borne out of his wife’s illicit relationship.
While Lakhan died on the spot, Rachna sustained injuries and is undergoing treatment at a local hospital.