A woman jumped into a well along with her three innocent children, killing all of them, in Pratapgarh while in Saharanpur, a woman poisoned her three daughters and consumed poison, killing two of the kids and herself.
According to reports from Pratapgarh, a woman wanted to go to Mumbai with her children but the husband refused to take her. Subsequently, the woman took the extreme step.
The incident took place in Aurangabad Narharpur village under Kohandaur police station, where the woman, Pramila, jumped into a well along with her three children. All four, including the mother, drowned.
A fire brigade team fished out all the four bodies on Thursday morning and sent them for post-mortem.
Reports said that Sohanlal, a resident of Narharpur village, was about to go to Mumbai. His wife, Pramila Devi (35), insisted on going with him, but he expressed his inability to take her along citing money problems. Sohanlal told his wife that he would arrange money and later call her. But the two had a heated exchange of words over the issue after which Pramila Devi left home with her children Saloni (7), Priyansh (5) and younger son Divyansh to go to her parents’ house on Wednesday night.
When she did not reach there, the family members launched a hunt and later learnt that she had jumped into the well after throwing her children in the well.
In another incident, a woman killed her two daughters and ended her life by consuming poison following an altercation with her mother-in-law in the Gangoh area of Saharanpur district, police said on Thursday.
Mamta (26) gave poison to her three daughters, Archi (5), Sona (3) and Arvi (2), and consumed it herself after a heated argument with her mother-in-law, Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sagar Jain said.
All four were rushed to the hospital where Mamta and her two daughters, Archi and Arvi, died during treatment, the official said.
The condition of Sona is stated to be stable.
A probe into the matter is underway.