Mumbai: Hours after a 16-day-old infant was reported missing, the baby girl was found dead in a gutter behind her house in Sion, on Tuesday night. Police have registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR) in the matter, but suspect the infant’s mother to have killed the baby, as her health was deteriorating since last week. According to the police, on Tuesday morning, the infant’s mother had kept her daughter on a bed beside the bedroom window and went to have a bath. T
here was no other person present in the house. Around ten minutes later, when she returned from the bathroom, she was shocked to see her daughter missing. The woman informed her husband about their daughter missing and immediately approached the Sion police station to register a missing person report. Police immediately formed teams and began investigations.
Hours later in the same evening, police found the infant lying in a gutter behind the house. The infant was rushed to the civic-run Sion Hospital, where she was declared dead before admission. Sion police registered an ADR in the matter and are investigating the case. Police suspect the infant’s mother could have killed her daughter, as the baby was unwell since the past few days.
The infant’s parents are not financially stable and their daughter’s treatment would have cost them a fortune, police said. “We are yet to receive the post-mortem report from the hospital, which will ascertain the cause of death. However, our lead suspect is the mother, who may have killed her daughter. It is likely since the baby was sick, which could cause them further financial burdens. Investigation is underway and arrests will soon be made,” said an investigating officer.
