Villupuram woman held for torturing infant has no mental illness, remanded in judicial custody: Police

The woman (22) was arrested in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday and taken to a hospital here for suspected mental disorder, the police said.

"Doctors examined her and said she does not have any kind of mental health issues. Later, she was produced before a court and she was remanded to judicial custody till September 13," a police official told PTI.

After video clips of the woman beating her child surfaced in social media and sparked off outrage, the woman was arrested based on a complaint from her husband, the police said.

Residents of a village near Gingee in the district said the couple often quarreled. They have two sons, aged 2 and 4, said the residents.

A relative seemed to have shared the videos showing the child getting thrashed by his mother.

The videos were taken by the mother herself.

It is not clear as to why the woman had behaved in such a manner. An FIR was registered against her by invoking sections of the IPC and the Juvenile Justice Act, the police said.