Agartala: Tripura Police has apprehended a woman for allegedly killing her five-month-old child in Sepahijala district, officials said on Monday.
According to the initial investigation, Suchitra Debbarma (28) killed her five-month-old child to facilitate her plan to elope with a man with whom she had been in a relationship for a year.
After receiving information from Suchitra’s neighbours, a police team headed by officer-in-charge of Sonamura police station Tapas Das went to their house at Rampadapara on Sunday.
“We found the baby lying on a bed while her mother was missing. We took the child to Sonamura sub-divisional hospital, where doctors declared the baby dead. Post-mortem will be conducted soon,” he said.
Suchitra was later arrested from the village, Das said.
Police said that an initial investigation indicated Suchitra strangled the child to death when her husband, Amit Debbarma, was away at work.
“Prima facie, it appeared that Suchitra strangled her child to death when her husband, Amit Debbarma, went out for work at a rubber plantation,” he said.
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She later confessed during interrogation that she killed the infant as part of her plan to elope with a man with whom she was having an extramarital affair.
