Hyderabad, May 13 -- A five-month-old baby girl was allegedly strangled to death by her mother and grandmother for being a 'burden' in Andhra Pradesh's Kakinada district.

According to police, Pasupuleti Sailaja, a resident of Narasinghapuram in Pithapuram mandal, left home two years ago and married Pasupuleti Satish, who belonged to a different caste.

However, the marriage suffered and Shailaja returned home and gave birth to Yashmita.

Her mother, Pedapati Annavaram, decided to remarry her daughter, this time to a person from the same caste.

Police said that Annavaram was unable to find a suitable groom as Shailaja was already a mother. She then decided to kill the baby, and Shailaja agreed.

On May 6, the mother-daughter duo killed b...