According to an FIR lodged by the Morbi town police, the 26-year-old woman, Sheetal Parmar, allegedly committed suicide along with her two daughters as she was fed up with the torture from her husband and in-laws for "failing to give birth to a baby boy".
"When we reached her house, we found charred bodies of Sheetal and daughters Payal (13 days old) and Jinkal (3). Prima facie, she poured kerosene over herself and the daughters and set her and them ablaze this morning," Sub- Inspector H B Bhadaniya said.
The accused trio was not present at the house when the police reached there, he said.
"As per Ganjaria, Dayaram and his parents started tormenting Sheetal soon after she gave birth to her second daughter. They used to taunt her for failing to give birth to a boy," Bhadaniya added.
"The complainant alleged that Sheetal took the extreme step as the torture from her husband and in-laws" was unbearable," he said, adding the hunt is on to nab the accused.
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