COIMBATORE: A five-year-old girl, who was abandoned in an unconscious state by her mother, a doctor, in a bus stop at Thandukkaranpalayam near Cheyur in Tirupur district on December 25, died without responding to treatment at a private hospital here on Monday evening.
Police said the girl's mother, an ENT specialist, was running a clinic in Bengaluru and was separated from her husband four years ago. Due to the pandemic, her revenue dwindled.
Gripped under the depression, the woman reached Thandukkaranpalayam near Cheyur on December 25, where she abandoned her daughter in the bus stop in an unconscious state. The villagers rescued the minor girl and admitted her at the Tirupur government hospital.
On the next day, police traced the mother of the girl. She had attempted suicide by consuming rat poison and was admitted at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.
During inquiry, she told the police that her daughter was suffering from severe fever and she had administered heavy dosage of drugs due to which she developed fits. So, she abandoned her daughter at the bus stop. Police registered a case against the mother.
The minor girl was shifted to CMCH. As the girl’s condition turned critical, she was shifted to a private hospital two days ago, where she died without responding to treatment. The body was sent to the CMCH for postmortem.
Tirupur district superintendent of police Disha Mittal said the cause of the death will be known only after getting the postmortem report. "If the minor girl died of poison, we will alter the case to 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code," Disha Mittal said.