Man considers daughter a burden and poisons her to death in Medak

A man who considered his daughter to be a financial burden and allegedly poisoned her to death in Sherila village of Veldurthy mandal, was nabbed and remanded in judicial custody on Wednesday. The obnoxious incident was reported to have taken place a couple of months ago, but the arrest took place on Wednesday, following a complaint by the girl’s mother Soundarya,



police said.

The arrested man Ikkiri Srisailam was alleged to have mixed a rodenticide in a cold drink and fed it to his daughter Nikitha (8) when she was alone at home on May 31. The girl fell ill and was admitted to a local hospital in Toopran from where she was referred to Niloufer hospital in Hyderabad. Nikitha died while undergoing treatment.