Overview
- Faridabad police arrested the child's mother on Sunday after CCTV footage and questioning linked her to the death, and they say she confessed.
- The case began on April 23 when two schoolchildren found the toddler's body caught in an iron mesh along Budhiya Nala in the Palla area.
- Doctors at Faridabad Civil Hospital reported that the child died from drowning, confirming findings from the postmortem.
- Investigators identified the accused as Neelam from Bihar's Madhubani district, who lives in a Dheeraj Nagar slum with her husband, and they report she cited severe financial distress.
- Police registered an FIR at Palla station under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder and for causing disappearance of evidence, and they are checking whether others knew and the condition of the other children.