Woman arrested on charges of infanticide

A 24-year-old woman was arrested today on charges of murdering her newborn baby as it was born when her husband was away in a foreign country for more than two-and-a-half years, police said.
The woman has been staying with her in-laws at Puduvalasai village in this district while her husband worked in the Middle-East for the past two-and-a-half years.
Her second baby was born on March 20. She slit the baby's throat and buried it in the backyard of her house.
In the meanwhile, people in the neighbourhood enquired about her about the child and one of the neighbours informed police suspecting that she could have committed infanticide.

She soon shifted the body of the baby to the local burial ground.
Police after recovering the body, registered a case of infanticide and trying to erase the evidence and arrested her, police said.