Newborn girl strangled at hospital in M.P.’s Ashok Nagar; cops suspect family’s role

A doctor who conducted the post-mortem found marks around the baby’s neck, indicating strangulation, sources saidA newborn girl has allegedly been strangled to death inside the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of a hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Ashoknagar, with police suspecting the involvement of her mother or grandmother, officials said on Sunday (October 4, 2026).