A mother allegedly suffocated her newborn to death at an Ekbalpore nursing home in southwest Kolkata on Wednesday because it was a girl child.
“Lovely Singh, 21, has confessed to suffocating the child with a pillow,” a police officer said.
The child was born on Tuesday morning. Preliminary post-mortem reports revealed that the child had been smothered, the police said.
Pediatricians checked the baby at 12.30am on Wednesday and found her healthy. “It was around 6am that an attendant checked on the baby and found her lifeless,” said the officer.
Singh was brought to the nursing home on Monday. Her husband stayed with her on the next bed. He apparently told the police that he had stepped out of the cabin and came to know about his daughter’s death after coming back.
No one was arrested till late on Wednesday evening.