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Indian mother sentenced for killing daughter

DUBAI: A Dubai court has increased the jail term of an Indian mother to 15 years for killing her daughter, attempting to kill the second one, and then trying to turn the knife on herself.

An appeal court here raised the sentence to 15 years for the 24-year-old woman, ruling she had intentionally killed her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Nashua and then tried to murder her 22-month-old sister Najiya with a 16-inch knife, Gulf News reported on Monday.

A lower court, finding the accused guilty of the crime, had earlier sentenced her to 10 to 15 years in jail. But the appeals court, which she approached to reduce her sentence, raised it. She pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

The court was told that the younger daughter’s life was saved by emergency services after she was rushed to hospital by paramedics, and that the baby girl had sustained 35 per cent permanent disability. — PTI

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