Incident Reports

Police arrest a girl on charges of drowning her infant

2018-05-09

[Updated] Police have arrested a 19 year old girl on Friday on charges of drowning her newborn child calling the baby a product of “an illegitimate relationship.” Sabita Pun of Nalgad Municipality-1 studying at Shiva Commercial Secondary School in Bheri Municipality-1 gave birth on May 9, 2018 and drowned the infant in Bheri River the next morning. The locals upon finding out about the incident informed the police, who then took Pun into custody, informed District Police Office, Jajarkot. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police at DPO, Bhawesh Rimal, police are investigating into the case and process for legal action on the suspect would be initiated upon completion of the investigation. Update... The District Court of Jajarkot has ordered to sentence 19 years old Sabita Pun of Nalagadh Municipality-1 for life on charge of killing newly born infant. A single bench of District Court judge Dev Kumar Giri had given the verdict regarding the case on July 3 according to DSP Rabindra Bahadur Singh of DPO. According to the police, the baby was born on May 9 having an explicit relationship by the woman. The body of a baby was wrapped in a bag and was thrown in a Bheri River. The accused was immediately arrested after the incident. The postmortem of the body was conducted at District Hospital of Jajarkot on May 9.
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Infanticide
Weapons None
Primary Cause Domestic violence
Actor 1 - Number of people 1
Actor 1 - Affiliations Family/relative
Actor 1 - Youth youth
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Family/relative
Actor 2 - Youth youth
Total Killed 1
Youth Killed 1
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