Kerala Man Arrested Month After He Killed Daughter: Police

The man was planning to kill himself as he did not want her to be left abandoned after his death, the police said.

Police probing the death of a minor girl in Kochi said on Monday that her father, arrested from Karnataka on April 18 nearly a month after the incident, had "confessed" to killing her and then planning to do so himself as he did not want her to be left abandoned after his death. Kochi city police commissioner Nagaraju Chakilam said the 13-year-old girl's father Sanu Mohan had confessed to the investigating team that he had killed his daughter and there was no third party involvement. Mohan said he committed the crime as he was deep in debt and the tension due to this was prima facie the motive behind the murder, the commissioner told reporters. However, thorough probe was necessary to find out the real motive behind the killing, he said.