BENGALURU: HAL police have arrested a 29-year-old civil contractor for allegedly harassing his wife for giving birth to two girls and attempting to murder his elder daughter, 5, at Reddypalya near HAL, recently.
The accused, Venkateshwara Rao, is from Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh. Police said Rao married a Bengaluru woman in 2016 and the couple's first daughter was born in 2017. Rao and and his parents were allegedly unhappy about this and demanded a boy from her. A few weeks ago, the woman gave birth to a another girl and had been staying with her parents in Reddypalya.
