Father Murders Newborn Daughter in Jalgaon Over Gender; Wanted a Son

• A father in Moral, Jamner taluka, Jalgaon district, murdered his three-day-old newborn daughter.
• Krishna Lalchand Rathod killed the infant by hitting her head with a wooden plank, enraged that she was his fourth daughter, not a son.
• The family initially tried to cover up the crime, staging it as an accidental fall from the mother's hands.
• Villagers' suspicions led police to investigate, and a medical report confirmed the baby died from a blow, not a fall.
• The father, Krishna Lalchand Rathod, confessed to the murder under police interrogation and has been arrested.

Why It Matters: Father arrested in Jalgaon for brutally murdering his newborn daughter, angered by her gender.