TNN | Mar 10, 2013, 02.24 AM IST
CHENNAI: Police have arrested a 35-year-old woman for throwing her 20-day-old daughter into the Vembakkam Lake near Chengalpeton Friday. The woman told police that her husband and other family members abandoned her saying she was mentally ill.
Some autorickshaw drivers saw the woman walking on the Chengalpet - Madurantakam Highroad with a baby on her shoulder. After some time, they found her walking back alone. They grew suspicious and questioned her. When she gave contradictory versions, they informed police.
When a team from the Chengalpet taluk police station interrogated her, she said she had left the child under a tree. Then she changed the story and said that she had abandoned the child on a rock. When police asked her to take them to the child, she led them to the lake. She got into the water and picked up the girl, who had by then drowned. She was detained at the all-women police station in Chengalpet.
During questioning, she identified herself as A Stella, 35, a native of Uthankuli near Chengalpet. She said her husband Kumar and in-laws chased her away when she was pregnant, saying she was mentally ill. She delivered the girl 20 days ago at the Chromepet government hospital. "She said she didn't have anywhere to go and didn't know how to raise the girl," a policeman said. Police have registered a case.
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Some autorickshaw drivers saw the woman walking on the Chengalpet - Madurantakam Highroad with a baby on her shoulder. After some time, they found her walking back alone. They grew suspicious and questioned her. When she gave contradictory versions, they informed police.
When a team from the Chengalpet taluk police station interrogated her, she said she had left the child under a tree. Then she changed the story and said that she had abandoned the child on a rock. When police asked her to take them to the child, she led them to the lake. She got into the water and picked up the girl, who had by then drowned. She was detained at the all-women police station in Chengalpet.
During questioning, she identified herself as A Stella, 35, a native of Uthankuli near Chengalpet. She said her husband Kumar and in-laws chased her away when she was pregnant, saying she was mentally ill. She delivered the girl 20 days ago at the Chromepet government hospital. "She said she didn't have anywhere to go and didn't know how to raise the girl," a policeman said. Police have registered a case.
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