The mother Pooja, who was unconscious, was rushed to SMIMER hospital, where she confessed to police that she had mistakenly thrown the baby.
The infant was rushed in a critical condition to the ICU of the same hospital, where, it died after being kept for 11 hours at a stretch on ventilator.
The father Jitu who was earlier taken into custody was later released by police.
There appears to be some mystery as the infant was born at home, though the parents come from a good financial background.
The child was born eight months after the marriage of the couple, police said.
Several questions arise about the infant's murder: one, whether Pooja was confessing under duress, and somebody else threw the infant. Two, when Pooja was unconscious, how could she have thrown the newborn infant. Three, why did the police close this case in a hurry.
Said M N Parmar, inspector of Puna police station: "We got information that a child was dropped from a flat.
It was alive. When we investigated, we came to know that a woman named Pooja threw the infant. She is also in hospital."
