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In Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district, a pregnant woman was at the receiving end of a hellish experience at the hands of her in-laws, who tried to murder her after an astrologer apparently predicted that she might become mother to a girl child. Girija, wife to a tenant farmer in Boduswami Kadriga village in Mutukur, Nellore, gave birth to a girl child last year, after which she became the target of constant harassment of her in-laws.