A five-year-old girl hit a wall and died after being slapped by her father in the Barabazar area under Hazaribagh police station of the capital on Tuesday.
The deceased name is Jannatul, 5, the only daughter of Md Rasel, a human hauler driver of Dakshin Aicha Upazila of Bhola district.
Her uncle Md Rahad said that Jannatul was not eating properly. Because of this, her father got angry and slapped her but she got injured by hitting her head against the wall on Monday night.
Later, she was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where she dies around 3am.
Noor Mohammad, OC of Hazaribagh police station, said that the child's mother has filed a murder case against the child's father with the police station.
The child's father Md Rasel has been arrested.
The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for post-mortem, said SI Nadir Shah, Sub-Inspector of Hazaribagh police station.
