The Cumbummettu police in Idukki on Friday arrested a migrant couple on charge of strangling their newborn just hours after its birth. The arrested were Madhya Pradesh natives Sadhuram, 23, and Malathi, 21, who were in a live-in relationship. According to Cumbummettu station house officer (SHO) V.S. Anilkumar, the incident took place at Santhipuram near Cumbummettu on May 7 night.
According to the police, the child was born by 12.30 a.m. on May 7 and the couple immediately strangled the baby boy. They told their house owner that the baby was stillborn. The house owner immediately alerted the Health department officials, who shifted the newborn to the Nedumkandam taluk hospital, where the doctor confirmed the baby’s death.
