Unable to deal with poverty and hunger, a 28 year old woman Ropani Devi killed her daughter and later committed suicide by hanging herself from a plash tree, 500 meters away from her native village Kusumdih within jurisdiction of Bokaro Thermal police here on Wednesday evening. The police here on Thursday recovered both the bodies and sent its for postmortem at Tenughat sub-divisional hospital, police in charge Rajesh Kujur told The Pioneer here on Thursday.
The desperate act on the part of the poverty–stricken woman has sent shock waves among the villagers of the areas. The villagers told the police that the woman probably took the extreme step due to financial crisis and mental depression, said Officer-in charge Rajesh Kujur.
The Police said Ropani Devi had been married to Rohit Murmu for the past five years, who died three or four years back. The woman had 5 year-old daughter Priya Kumari. Both had gone Bokaro Thermal on Wednesday for having some marketing and returned late in the evening and later happened this incident.
Her brother Chandan Manjhi added that her sister was mentally disturbed and could murdered her daughter first and hanged her body from a tree then hanged herself from the same tree. The villagers came to know about the incident on Wednesday night and informed the Bokaro Thurmal police about it. The police said it is too early to comment on the motive behind the murder of her daughter and hanged herself. But we will know as soon as the investigation is over, Officer added.