Ashok Nagar , A newborn girl has allegedly been strangled to death inside the Special Newborn Care Unit of a hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Ashoknagar, with police suspecting the involvement of her mother or grandmother, officials said on Sunday.
Police are investigating the reason behind the strangulation. “There is a strong possibility that the family killed the child to get rid of her, as she was the third girl in the family. There were no CCTV cameras inside the SNCU, and therefore no footage of the incident was available, they added.
We are recording statements and gathering evidence to identify the culprit,” an investigator said.
“We are investigating the death and strongly suspect that either the child’s mother or grandmother was involved in the strangulation. The child was the second daughter of her parents. Her father’s elder brother has a daughter from his first wife, but no child from the second wife.
The baby, the third daughter of a joint family from Sakrra village in the Chanderi area, was born around 11.50 pm on Friday and was admitted to the SNCU shortly after. She was found dead between 3 and 4 pm on Saturday, Kotwali police station house officer Ravipratap Singh Chauhan told PTI over the phone.
The needle of suspicion was more on the mother,” Chauhan said. The deceased was the third female child in the family, the official said.
