Because she wanted a baby boy, the police have arrested a 24-year-old woman for smothering her one-day-old baby girl to death inside the government district hospital in Madhya Pradesh ‘s Ashoknagar on Saturday.
What the accused told the police
The postmortem report confirmed the cause of death as smothering. It was then that Bhavana allegedly smothered the child with the blanket. The doctor at the district hospital informed the police, and a postmortem was conducted. She already has a two-year-old daughter.
“Bhavana had given birth to a baby girl at the district hospital around 11 pm on Friday night.
The accused has been identified as Bhavana Vishwakarma, a resident of Sakarra village in Chanderi , according to the police. Shortly after birth, the newborn was shifted from the PNC ward to the SNCU,” Superintendent of Police Rajeev Mishra said. During interrogation, Bhavana told police she had hoped for a son but was distressed after giving birth to a second daughter. “She was worried about the responsibility of raising two daughters and feared taunts from her family,” the SP said.
The infant was wrapped in a blanket, sleeping beside the accused on Saturday, while the mother-in-law was asleep, according to police.
