Kamal Ghorui
AHMEDABAD: The investigation into the deaths of Raha and Mishri Prajapati — three months and four years old respectively — which was first ascribed to contaminated dosa batter, is now focusing on the possible murder of the girls because their parents wanted a son.A police officer said, “We found a diary from the house of the mother’s parents.” He said, “She wrote in it that she wanted a boy and vowed to visit a temple if her wish was fulfilled.”
Additional commissioner of police, Sector 1, Neeraj Badgujar, said that the father of the dead girls, Vimal Prajapati, was questioned.The girls’ mother, Bhavna, is still hospitalized. Another officer said toxicology tests found aluminium phosphide, used in insecticides and rodenticides, in the parents’ blood. “We questioned Vimal and found that he bought 10 packets of a wheat preservative that contains aluminium phosphide. He used eight but could not say where the other two packets went,” the officer said.
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The officer said Vimal’s parents, Gaurishankar and Kusum Prajapati, were also questioned after police learned the family had constant quarrels over money.
