Guwahati, Oct. 8 -- The Gauhati High Court has acquitted a woman sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly murdering her one-month-old daughter, ruling that her confessional statement was inadmissible as it was recorded in the presence of a policewoman and that the trial court should have considered the possibility of postpartum psychosis.

In its order issued on October 6, a divisional bench of justices Michael Jothankhuma and Rajesh Mazumdar said that the trial court should also have considered postpartum psychosis, a temporary condition witnessed in some women soon after childbirth, which can lead them to lose their sense of reality and pose risks to the newborn in some cases.

"Conviction of the appellant only on the basis of the c...