The woman with her baby in her lap poured kerosene and set herself on fire at her maternal home Raghunathpur village as the 25 year-old Anita Kumar with her three month-old daughter in her lap, Sub-divisional police officer R K Gupta said.
She took the extreme step apparently in a state of depression after her husband abandoned her following frequent quarrel between the couple, he said adding a probe was on in the incident.