KOCHI: Locals have beaten up the father of a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, who was killed by her grandmother's boyfriend at a hotel in Kochi. Sajeev, the father of the deceased Nora Maria, was beaten up by locals for driving his car at a high speed to the house of the child's mother. Sources said that the Child Welfare Committee was considering the case regarding the protection of the dead baby and the eldest child. Dixie, the child's mother, said that she had stopped sending money from abroad since Sajeev was not looking after the children. She also alleged that Sajeev and his mother used to torture the children.

The funeral of Nora Maria was held at 6.15 pm at St. Francis Forane Church in Karukutty after the arrival of her mother from abroad. Meanwhile accused John Binoy Dcruz's mother revealed that her son had been in a relationship with the baby's grandmother Sipsy for six years. John's mother said that he used to cause a lot of trouble at home.

Sipsy had been living together with John and her son's two children in a hotel room since March 5. After killing the child, John told Sipsy that the child had vomited and fallen unconscious. Following this, Sipsy rushed the child to the hospital. Upon reaching the hospital, Sipsy repeated what John told her. However, the police registered a case of unnatural death. The subsequent post-mortem revealed that water had entered the child's lungs. With this, it was confirmed that it was a murder.