Overview
- Police say the farmer father in Banpuri bound his daughters and hung them upside down on Wednesday evening inside a tin‑shed home.
- By Thursday morning the girls were found unconscious, the younger child was declared dead at the hospital, and the elder was admitted and later reported stable.
- Sub-divisional police officer Vipul Patil said the accused was booked under sections 103 and 109 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new penal code for murder and attempted murder.
- Officers said a theft complaint against the girls triggered the alleged punishment, and relatives did not intervene after threats with a sickle.
- Doctors alerted Atpadi police, who registered an FIR, sent the body for postmortem, and moved to obtain the father’s custody as the investigation continues.