Thiruvananthapuram: In a shocking incident, a 40-day-old baby girl died after being hurled into a river by her father, police in Kerala said.
The incident at Pachalloor in Thiruvallam happened hours after a ceremony to name the child.
The baby's body was recovered in the wee hours of Friday. The child's father Unnikrishnan (26), an electrician, has been arrested. Police said there were some issues between the child's parents.
Relatives said the man had insisted on taking the child to his mother. When he did not return after some time, the mother lodged a police complaint. After some people saw him near a river, police conducted a search and recovered the baby's body. The child's mother, a traffic warden, has a daughter from another marriage.
(PTI)
