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Ambikapur: A woman and her minor daughter were found hanging from a tree in front of a government school where her husband works as a teacher in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, police said on Saturday.
Police suspect that Meena Gupta (35) hanged her daughter, Astha (7), first before dying by suicide after a fight with her husband.
"The mother-daughter duo was found hanging from a tree near a government high school in Kunni village on Friday morning," a police official here said.
As per the preliminary information, there was a long-standing dispute between the woman and her husband who is a teacher at the same government high school, and their divorce case was pending in a local court, he said.
On Thursday, the woman along with her daughter reached the school. Soon, a heated exchange of words took place between her and her husband over some issue. After the school got over, her husband went home while the woman and her daughter kept sitting outside the school, he said.
The next morning, the duo was found hanging from a tree in front of the school, he said.
"Prima facie, the woman hanged herself after hanging her daughter from the tree using a rope," he said.
A case has been registered in this connection and further probe is on, he added.