Daijiworld Media Network - Chikkamagaluru (SP)

Chikkamagaluru, Nov 7: In a heart-rending incident which happened at Tarikere in the district, a woman walked four km to Bhadra upper bank canal and tossed her three-month-old baby into it.

The woman who resorted to this gruesome act was Kamala, wife of Thimmaiah from Nidaghatta village, Kadur taluk. On Monday November 4, she had brought her male baby to Basaveshwara children's hospital in Tarikere town, complaining that it was not well.

On Tuesday November 5, after the treatment of the baby, she came out with the baby, walked about four km where she threw away the baby into the Bhadra canal near Haliyoor. She came back and told the police that strangers forcibly took her baby away. Some villagers who saw that the baby was being washed away by water in the said canal near Santhedibba, informed the police. The mortal remains of the baby were brought out of the canal at Bhandra upper bank canal pump house at Betttatavarekere with the support of locals, the police said.

A cse was registered against the woman in Tarikere lpolice station, and the woman was produced in court. She was remanded to judicial custody till November 19.