PALAKKAD: The death of the one-and-a-half-year-old girl in Shornur has been proven to be murder. The murder was confirmed when the post-mortem report came out that the baby died of suffocation. Police arrested the baby's mother Shilpa in the incident. The police said that the murder was due to an argument with her partner.
Police had informed yesterday that the baby died due to cardiac arrest. Police had released the mother of the child after questioning.

Shilpa brought the dead baby girl to the hospital in Shornur, Palakkad yesterday morning. Following this the mother was taken into custody by Shornur police. The medical officer also stated that the baby was dead by the time she was taken to the hospital. The police took the mother into custody and interrogated her after becoming suspicious about the incident. Shilpa, the baby's mother, hails from Kottayam.