The police said 21-year-old Soundarya, who was married to Varadarajan 15 months back, was blessed with a girl child two weeks back. The woman gave birth to the child at Jipmer in Puducherry.

The police said Varadarajan was upset over the birth of the baby girl. In a fit of rage, he took the baby, which was sleeping near her mother on Monday night, wrapped it in a cloth and buried it on the riverbed. In the wee hours on Tuesday, Soundarya woke up and found the infant

missing. After she raised an alarm, locals and police launched a search and finally found the body buried on the riverbed, leading to the arrest of Varadarajan. The body has been exhumed and sent to government hospital for post-mortem.

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