Overview
- Dundigal police allege the mother stuffed cloth into the infant’s mouth, tied his limbs and put him in a fire, causing fatal burns.
- The father told police he returned around 11 a.m. and found the child burning, by which time the baby had died.
- Officers have registered a case, taken both parents into custody and said further investigation is underway.
- The body was shifted to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad for a post-mortem examination to determine the exact cause and sequence of injuries.
- The family are migrants from Madhya Pradesh living in the Baurampet area under Dundigal police limits, and police are also examining domestic circumstances and reports of prolonged crying.