A 22-year-old woman from West Bengal was arrested in Ghaziabad last week for allegedly killing her newborn daughter barely 45 minutes after delivering her at her sister’s residence, police said. They said the woman, Jharna, threw the infant from the terrace, intending for the body to land in a vacant plot behind the house, but the baby instead fell onto a neighbour’s roof.

The incident came to light around 6.30 am on December 5, when Vinay Rawat, a resident of Nehru Nagar’s Rakesh Marg, spotted the body of the newborn on his roof and alerted police. “The baby appeared to have been born only a few hours earlier,” said ACP (Nandgram) Upasana Pandey.

A neighbour told officers that one Shankar Sen — originally from West Bengal’s West Medinipur — was living on rent in a house, and that his si

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