In a chilling case from Gujarat’s Porbandar, the police have arrested a woman, her mother and her partner for allegedly killing and burying a premature newborn within hours of birth in the fourth such exhumation of human remains in the state in a week.

The Madhavpur police arrested Jagruti Mulu Vaja, her mother Dudhi Mulu Vaja, and her cousin Hitesh Khima Daki, the child’s alleged biological father, on May 5 following a complaint by Jagruti’s estranged husband, Vipul Kana Vasan.

This is the fourth such exhumation in a week in Gujarat and the 11th instance of murder victims’ remains being recovered in the state over the past seven months.

A estranged husband’s complaint

The case came to light after Vipul Vasan, 32, a sharecropper from Mander village, learned that his estranged wife had given birth and had named him as the father despite the couple being separated for two years.…