Aneesha, a 23-year-old pregnant woman, arrested on charge of murdering her six-year-old stepdaughter, had a troubled childhood in absolute penury at Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh, she reportedly revealed during her interrogation. That her grandmother had inadvertently played a part in her belief that she was possessed by evil spirits in her husband’s house at Nellikkuzhy near Kothamangalam remains an …
