A 28-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly strangulating his two-year-old daughter to death suspecting that she was his illegitimate child, police said.
The police identified the accused as Ramesh, a resident of Baijnath Pur village under Chiluatal police station and a brick kiln worker.
Police said Ramesh was a drunkard and often used to beat up his wife due to which she had left him to stay with her parent in the same village along with her three children — Kajal (8), Price (5) and Shreya (2).
Ramesh killed his youngest daughter after taking away all his children from their mother’s custody on Sunday evening and returned on Monday morning on a motorcycle with his eldest daughter Kajal’s holding her dead sibling’s body in her lap and her brother Prince sitting behind her on the bike.
After Ramesh returned with the dead body, the villagers caught hold of him to know the reason behind the death.