<p class="title">The city police have arrested a 27-year-old woman for strangling her 26-day-old infant daughter in Rajagopalnagar on July 30.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused has been identified as Pavithra, a resident of Laggere in Rajagopalnagar. The jurisdictional police took up a suo motu case and arrested the accused after the latter confessed to the crime.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In his complaint, Sub-Inspector Shivaraj M J, attached with Rajagopalnagar police station, said Siddapura police registered a case due to the unnatural death of the accused's child, who, according to the mother, had been suffering from wheezing and vomiting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pavithra, who had recently delivered the girl child in her maternal house in Kunigal, had rushed her baby to the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital but doctors declared her brought dead. </p>.<p class="bodytext">As it was a case of unnatural death, police had doctors from the Victoria Hospital perform a postmortem. To their shock, they discovered that the cause of death was due to asphyxiation as a result of ligature strangulation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Armed with the report, police confronted Pavithra, who confessed that she strangled her child using a veil.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In her confession, Pavitra said she already had a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and that her second child too was a girl with health problems.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajagopalnagar police took up a suo motu case and arrested Pavithra as her husband was uncooperative. She was produced her before a magistrate who remanded her in judicial custody.</p>
<p class="title">The city police have arrested a 27-year-old woman for strangling her 26-day-old infant daughter in Rajagopalnagar on July 30.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused has been identified as Pavithra, a resident of Laggere in Rajagopalnagar. The jurisdictional police took up a suo motu case and arrested the accused after the latter confessed to the crime.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In his complaint, Sub-Inspector Shivaraj M J, attached with Rajagopalnagar police station, said Siddapura police registered a case due to the unnatural death of the accused's child, who, according to the mother, had been suffering from wheezing and vomiting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pavithra, who had recently delivered the girl child in her maternal house in Kunigal, had rushed her baby to the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital but doctors declared her brought dead. </p>.<p class="bodytext">As it was a case of unnatural death, police had doctors from the Victoria Hospital perform a postmortem. To their shock, they discovered that the cause of death was due to asphyxiation as a result of ligature strangulation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Armed with the report, police confronted Pavithra, who confessed that she strangled her child using a veil.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In her confession, Pavitra said she already had a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and that her second child too was a girl with health problems.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajagopalnagar police took up a suo motu case and arrested Pavithra as her husband was uncooperative. She was produced her before a magistrate who remanded her in judicial custody.</p>