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New-born girl murdered by mother

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KOLKATA: Distraught at giving birth to another girl child four years after her first child, the mother of a newly born infant buried her baby alive within the compound of her parents' house at Halisahar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday. The body of the infant, exhumed later in the evening by the police, has been sent for post-mortem. The mother, 24-year-old Sonali Das and the infant's grandmother, have been arrested.

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