On January 29, a girl’s body was found in the Nizam Sagar distributary canal in Telangana’s Nizamabad. The police say the girl’s father killed her, his firstborn, so that his wife could contest the panchayat election. Under Maharashtra’s rules, candidates with more than two children cannot contest local elections and the couple had three. Marri Ramu travels to Nizamabad and Nanded to trace the sequence of the tragedy
