India, Dec. 7 -- Ghaziabad

A newborn girl, whose body was found on the terrace of a building in Ghaziabad's Rakesh Marg locality on Friday, had multiple injuries indicating that she had been killed, police officers aware of the matter said on Saturday. Her mother, a 19-year-old woman from West Bengal, who had claimed the baby was stillborn, has been arrested in connection with the death.

The incident was reported to the police around 9am on Friday, when a man discovered the body of a newborn girl on the terrace of his house and informed the police. Police traced the mother of the child to a house in the neighbourhood.

"The police sent the body for autopsy, and it revealed that the newborn girl died of multiple injuries and was not stil...