A 32-year-old man in Maharashtra’s Nanded district was arrested on Monday, February 2, for allegedly killing his six-year-old daughter in a bid to qualify for local panchayat elections. The grim discovery was made after local residents found the child’s body in a nearby water body. Initial investigations by the police revealed that Kondamangale, an aspiring candidate for the post of Sarpanch (village head), already had two children and viewed his third child as a legal barrier to his political ambitions.
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