In a shocking verdict, a Suryapet court sentenced B Bharathi to death for the 2021 ritualistic murder of her infant daughter. Bharathi sacrificed her child to supposedly eliminate her 'sarpa dosham,' an astrological belief. This conviction was influenced by her prior imprisonment for assaulting her husband with a stone.
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