In a chilling case of female infanticide in Madurai district's Usilampatti area, a month-old baby girl was allegedly poisoned by her parents and grandfather. The couple S Vairamurugan

(37) and Sowmya (22) have a one-and-a-half-year-old girl child and were unhappy with the birth of another daughter and allegedly chose to kill her on the night of March 2. All three have

been arrested by the police and booked for murder, criminal conspiracy and tampering with evidence.