India is celebrating Navratri, a festival honouring Maa Durga as a protector. Yet shocking crimes remind us of a dark reality. In Madhya Pradesh, a woman killed her 7-year-old son for asking to eat chicken. She beat him repeatedly with a rolling pin.
Her 10-year-old daughter was also assaulted and left injured. The boy died on the spot. Instead of taking him to a hospital, the mother tried to hide the crime. Police arrived after a neighbour alerted them, arrested her, and seized the rolling pin.
The woman kept claiming it was a natural death, but investigations revealed she lived separately from her husband and was under mental stress. Still, the brutal act stunned the community.
Earlier, another mother threw her daughter into a river on her lover’s advice. Such incidents feel unbearable and shake faith in the bond of motherhood. Mothers are meant to protect and nurture, not destroy young lives.
