Man kills toddler daughter, chops her limbs off

A one-year-old child has been brutally killed by her own father on account of a marital feud with his wife in Singair upazila, Manikganj.

The accused, Al Amin, 30, was arrested and made a confessional statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure before a court on Monday afternoon.

“Al Amin was arrested on Sunday in Sirajpur, after we recovered a mutilated body of the deceased toddler, Meem Akhter, on November 6,” said Sub-inspector Farhaduzzaman Bhuiyan, the investigating officer of the case.

A case was filed with Singair police station after Al Amin went missing on November 3 with his daughter, who he later killed and then chopped off her limbs, said the officer.

On November 3, Al Amin reportedly beat up his wife and went missing with his daughter. Unable to trace her daughter, Hosne Ara filed a complaint with the police station, accusing her husband Al Amin and five of her in-laws.