The city police have booked a 30-year-old manual labourer on the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with the death of his infant daughter at their house in Vattiyoorkavu on Thursday. The police said that Rajesh was cradling his three-month-old daughter Lavanya when he slipped and fell on the floor, crushing the child beneath him. Investigators said Rajesh was inebriated at the time. He went into a state of shock after the incident and could be questioned only after the infant’s funeral on Friday. Forensic experts told the police that the child had died of crush injuries. The police said incident was not a premeditated crime. It was an involuntary offence, they said. They would produce the man in court on Saturday.
