A six-month-old infant, Khatija Kubra, was found dead in a well at a house in Bhavaninagar on Wednesday night.
The body of the infant was found in a seven-and-a half feet deep well inside the house.
On Wednesday evening, her mother, Haleema Begum, left Kubra in the cradle and went into another room. She returned within a few minutes and found her missing.
The mother began a frantic search but to no avail.
Half-an-hour later, a relative found the infant in the well and rushed her to a hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead. There are no external injuries on the body.
“The well is about 20 feet away from the room and has a parapet wall. Apparently, someone took the infant and threw her in the water sump while the mother was away,” Bhavaninagar Inspector B. Srinivasa Rao said. The police registered a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
They suspect the involvement of a woman, a relative of the family, in the murder.
The father of the girl, Mohd Ismail, lives in the house along with three brothers and their families.
Man dupes Flipkart
A 32-year-old hardware technician, Veera Swamy, bought new computer peripherals through an e-commerce portal, Flipkart, then replaced the new ones with damaged pieces and returned them to the company.
He ran out of luck when the company management grew suspicious after two years of being duped and made a complaint against him at the Vanasthalipuram police station.
Swamy cheated the company to the tune of Rs. 25 lakh.
