India, April 27 -- Days after a one-year-old girl's body was recovered from a drain in Faridabad's Palla area, police on Sunday arrested her 28-year-old mother, who allegedly threw the child into the drain, leading to her death by drowning.

The case came to light on April 23 when two schoolchildren found the child's body stuck in an iron mesh along the edge of a drain around 2pm while returning from school, officers said. Locals alerted the police, following which a team from Palla police station reached the spot, retrieved the body with residents' help and sent it for post-mortem to the Faridabad Civil Hospital in Ballabgarh.

Police said the autopsy confirmed that the child died due to drowning. A team from the DLF crime branch then an...