New Delhi: A 26-year-old woman was arrested for strangling her three-month-old infant after a fight with her husband. Anjali Devi, a resident of Northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh, has been arrested and booked for murder, police said on Friday.
According to police, they received a call around 2.14 pm on Thursday about the killing of an infant by her mother. ‘Local police reached the spot and learnt that the woman had strangled the baby with the thread around her neck’, Usha Rangnani, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) said.
Devi had a quarrel with her husband on Thursday morning over some domestic issue. When her husband left for his work, she killed the baby in a fit of rage, the DCP said. We have registered a case of murder under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and the accused woman has been arrested. The body of the child has been sent for post-mortem examination after which it would be handed over to the family’, she added.
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