“I hope your husband and in-laws get justice in this world.”
They will abandon the first daughter. He’ll get remarried and have a son. He will live happily ever after even if his wife is living in Hell because she’s with him.
Due to sex selective births China has thirty million more males than females. That’s by Chinese statistics, which normally understate problems. This has contributed to a dramatic decline in marriages, birth rates and Chinese culture in general. (Official stats say the replacement rate is .9 but outside experts say it is closer to .5.
Replacement rate is 2.) India’s problem isn’t quite as bad, but that’s probably because such tests are not readily available to the average Indian. In India a woman has to have a dowry to get married. That’s why the man didn’t want a second daughter.
Perhaps the maternal grandparents will take the child. After all that is all they have left of their daughter.