Tiruvarur: Father held for smashing baby to death
The accused Madhavan, married Vaishanavi of Maruthapatnam couple of years ago, after a love affair and the couple recently had a baby.
TIRUVARUR: In a bizarre case of infanticide, the Tiruvarur district Police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly murdering his four-month-old male baby by thrashing him against a wall at Annukudi village near here on Monday.
The accused Madhavan, married Vaishanavi of Maruthapatnam couple of years ago, after a love affair and the couple recently had a baby. However, his wife, resenting her husband’s ‘torture’ demanding more dowry, had gone back to her parent’s home.
Madhavan on Sunday went to his wife’s parent’s house had a quarrel with her and forcibly took the child and smashed it on the wall in anger, police said.
The infant was rushed to the Government medical college hospital Tiruvarur, where he succumbed to his injuries on Monday. Police arrested Madhavan and are investigating.