India, July 3 -- An Indian-origin pediatrician has been arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old daughter and then staging a drowning to cover up the crime in Miami, a report by WSVN Miami said.

Neha Gupta, a 36-year-old paediatrician from Oklahoma, was living at a short-term rental home in El Portal with her daughter Aria Talathi, whom she shared custody of with her ex-husband.

On June 27, police responded to a 911 call around 4.30 am to a 911 call reporting a child drowning in a residential pool. Aria was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.

At the time of the incident, Gupta had claimed the child accidentally drowned after she sneaked out of bed at night and wandered outside. However, her autopsy did not f...