A 3 month old baby girl on Wednesday in New Delhi was killed by her father who wanted a son. Neha Afreen died from cardiac arrest at a state-run hospital in India's tech hub of Bangalore after battling for life for three days. Afreen was brought to the hospital with head injuries, abrasions and bite marks all over the body, causing national outrage that led to the arrest of her father on Monday. "My husband was enraged with me for delivering a girl," Afreen s mother Reshma Banu told reporters. "He hated her. He wanted me to get rid of the child or abandon her as he wanted a son." Afreen s case is the latest in a string of incidents across India where baby girls have been abandoned, tortured or even killed because they were unwanted. Girls are often viewed as a burden in traditional families as they require hefty dowries to be married off and the practice of aborting female foetuses is rampant. The preference for male children has led to a huge and alarming gender imbalance, with 2011 census data showing just 914 girls per 1,000 boys across India -- much behind the global benchmark of 952.
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