The Kerala Police on Saturday, March 12, arrested the father and took into custody the grandmother of the infant, who died a few days ago after the woman’s young lover allegedly confessed to having murdered the child.
The section deals with punishment to whoever, having the actual charge of, or control over, a child, assaults, abandons, abuses, exposes or willfully neglects the child or causes or procures the child to be assaulted, abandoned, abused, exposed or neglected in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary mental or physical suffering.
The officials had said D’cruz was allowed to leave after his initial questioning and on reaching his home at Palluruthy, he had confessed to his mother about what he had done.
The infant’s father was undergoing treatment at some hospital, his wife was abroad for work for three months, police had said and added that as a result the two children were left with their paternal grandmother.
Meanwhile, the child’s mother, who returned to India on being informed that the infant was not well, had told the media that she came to know of her baby girl’s death only after arriving here.