A 22-year-old woman has been arrested from Ghaziabad's Patla town for allegedly smothering her newborn girl because she wanted a boy, police said on Monday.
"Aarti, who gave birth to a baby girl just three months ago, said she was frustrated and angry at herself for not having a son," Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.
The woman later called up police emergency number 100 and claimed that her daughter had been abducted by some unidentified persons.
"In a fit of rage, Aarti smothered the infant with a pillow on Sunday, after which she stuffed her baby's body in a washing machine," Mr Tomar said. He went on to say, "Though Aarti initially claimed that the infant had been kidnapped, she later confessed to her crime during questioning by the police."
The investigators said that there was no pressure on the woman from her in-laws or her husband for a son in the family and she killed the child on her own as she wanted to have a son.
The woman is from Khanjarpur village near Modi Nagar and got married to Mohit over a year ago.
The police said that the woman will be arrested for murder and destruction of evidence and will be produced before a Ghaziabad court
