Two female infants killed in MP

In two cases of female infanticides witnessed in Madhya Pradesh in the past 24 hours, one newborn girl was made to meet a watery grave and the other literally fed to stray dogs.

In a hair- raising incident, passengers in a car were spotted throwing a baby girl in an agriculture field at Sanabad in Khargon district by a few passersby late on Friday evening, leading to her gruesome death.

“Eyewitness accounts said wild stray dogs jumped on the baby and started tearing her body apart as soon as she hit the ground. The toddler was shrieking as the dogs were gouging her eyes and feeding on her,” Mortakka police station in- charge J. S. Scindia said on Saturday. She was already dead by the time the onlookers came to her rescue.

“A plastic clip was found tied in the umbilical cord of the kid. It means the baby was born in a hospital. We have started gathering records of the birth of newborns on the day in all hospitals in the region to identify the parents of the deceased infant,” he added.

In another incident, a mother, resident of Kaidi village, brutally killed her 26- day- old baby girl by drowning her in water on Saturday.

The police arrested the woman, identified as Namita. “Initially, she said a cat pressed its legs on the infant leading to her death. But, a post- mortem report which attributed the death of the baby to asphyxiation nai- led her lie. Later, the wo- man confessed to the kil- ling,” the investigator said.