Young mother kills her ailing infant in UP

A young mother in Lucknow threw her infant out of the balcony of the 4th floor of KGMU. The child was critically ill with jaundice and his survival seemed difficult to the doctors. The mother therefore, killed her child. She was arrested after the incident was seen by the police on CCTV.

Lucknow: Upset over the poor health of her three-month-old son, a young mother threw him from the 4th floor of the Trauma Centre of King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow.

Her husband and brother-in-law were sleeping outside when the incident took place on Monday. The mother claimed that her child had gone missing from the ward and even blamed the staff for stealing the baby boy.

The police arrested the mother after scanning the CCTV footage where she was seen throwing the infant out from the balcony.

According to the police, the infant was born in BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur on April 23 and had developed jaundice. The child had been admitted to the KGMU on May 26 and was under treatment.

The doctors informed the parents that the infant's liver had been damaged and his survival was difficult.