Venganna’s house plunged into sorrow on Sunday after the police found that his wife had murdered their child.
Uma, 27, the mother of the one-and-a-half-month-old child, was arrested by the Velachery police, produced before the judicial magistrate and remanded in prison.
Mr. Venganna had a love marriage with Uma two years ago and the couple were living in Draupadi Amman Koil Street in Velachery, the police said. A child was born to the couple on August 30 and they had named the child Charvik.
The mother suffered severe pain whenever she breastfed the baby and had complained about the pain to her husband, the police said, adding that at one point she had even asked her husband to give away the child to somebody.
Upset over not being able to feed her child, Uma threw the baby into the Velachery lake, the police said. When her husband enquired about the child on Friday, she feigned ignorance and said someone had abducted the child as the door was found to be open.
Special team formed
A special team was formed to investigate. When the mother was not able to give the time of the baby’s disappearance, the police team questioned her and found that she had thrown the baby into the lake.
The body was found in the lake on Sunday and sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortem, the police said.