While India is planning a manned mission to Moon, developing costly spacesuits aboard Gaganyaan, conducting tests to send female astronauts, back home people are still struggling to realise that girls are precious.

Giving birth to a girl child is still considered a sin in small boroughs of our country. This heart-wrenching incident is proof of this fact. In a shocking display of anger, a man threw his 18-month old daughter off the building terrace as his wife had given birth to a second girl child.

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The accused, Arvind Gangwar who hails from Pardhauli village in Uttar Pradesh was apparently in an intoxicated state when he committed this crime. The accused’s desperation to have a male child led him to throw the baby off.

The infant, Kavya was critically injured and has been admitted to a hospital. The locals alerted the police officials at the C.B Ganj police station on Thursday following which Gangwar was arrested.

While speaking to PTI, the villagers said that the atmosphere in Gangwar’s family was not in a good state for the last five days, ever since the wife gave birth to a daughter. Superintendent of police (SP City) Abhimanyu Singh said that a case of attempt to murder has been registered against the accused, reported Mirror Now.