Domestic violence: an Indian husband cuts off his pregnant wife’s belly and kills the fetus

Indian police said a man cut off his pregnant wife’s belly, resulting in the baby’s death.

The wife’s family said: “Her husband attacked her because he wanted to know the gender of the fetus.” They claimed that the husbands had five daughters and that the husband was pressuring his wife to have a boy.

The husband, who was arrested by the police, denies deliberately harming his wife, saying it was simply an “accident”.

The incident occurred in the “Badun” district of Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely populated regions of India, in the north of the country.

Police officers told the BBC that the wife’s health was stable in a hospital in the capital Delhi and that her husband had been arrested.

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The sister-in-law told local media that the couple often fought over the desire to have a baby boy.

The wife’s brother said that the doctors decided to take his sister to the hospital because her condition was very serious.

The husband denied intentionally attacking his wife and said he threw a sickle at her but did not intend to seriously harm her.

“I have five daughters and one of my sons has died. I know that children are a gift from God. And now what must happen will happen.”

Police continue to investigate the circumstances of the accident.

It should be noted that the desire of husbands in India to have male children has resulted in disproportionate sex ratios of births.

According to a report by the United Nations Population Fund, 46 million girls have disappeared in India in the last 50 years.

India witnesses the killing of 46,000 women each year due to deliberate neglect of postpartum births of women.

A government report issued in 2018 stated that the desire to have a child led to the neglect of 21 million female births. The report issued by the Ministry of Finance indicated that husbands continue to try until the birth of a male child.