SHILLONG: A three-week-old baby died after a hardened criminal had allegedly snatched the baby and put it inside a bucket in a residence in Mission compound in the city.
East KhasI Hills SP Davis Marak said that the incident happened on Tuesday morning at around 2.30 AM when a man who had covered his face forcefully broke into the house of a resident of Mission Compound.
The masked person assaulted the woman who was sleeping and snatched her baby and ran away
The members of the family called up the police as they felt that the baby was kidnapped and police conducted a thorough search only to the find the child in a bucket.
According to Superintendent of Police the baby was alive and was shifted to hospital , the baby was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Later, in the evening, the accused who is suspected to be involved in the crime was arrested by the police from the city
Reacting to a query, the SP said that the bucket had some water and police felt that the baby might have died due to exposure to cold. However, the postmortem report was still being awaited
Meanwhile, sources said that the accused who has been arrested was a hardened criminal with different cases being registered against him.