Couple throw newborn girl into septic tank

Police in Tripura on Saturday arrested a couple who threw their newborn baby girl into a septic tank as they did not want a daughter because of their poverty.

Acting on a tip-off from the locals, police and fire brigade personnel immediately rescued the miraculously alive baby from the septic tank at Teliamura, 55 km north of here, and shifted her to a nearby government hospital.

“Nitai Singha, 48, a day labourer, confessed to police that he and his wife purposely threw the new born into the septic tank because they did not want a daughter,” a police spokesman told reporters.

“Nitai and his wife Sima, who have two teenaged sons. They told the police that they had expected another son but when it turned out to be a daughter, they decided to kill her,” the spokesman said.

“We are very poor. We would not be able to take care of a girl child and get her married in future. Therefore, immediately after her birth Friday night, we decided to kill the girl by throwing her into the septic tank behind our house,” the couple told police.