Desire of a male child leads woman to kill daughters

bsessed with the desire to give birth to a son, 31-year-old Subhadra Das, a frustrated mother killed all her three daughters in Purshottampur village of Orissa. Later she went to the police and confessed her crime. Subhadra said, "After killing my three daughters I tried to commit suicide by getting drowned in the pond. But even after attempting thrice I could not kill myself."