The body of a toddler, who was missing from home since Monday, was recovered from a beach here and the mother has been arrested after she admitted to having thrown the child among the rocks near the sea, killing him, police said. The 21-year-old woman, who had strained relations with her husband, admitted to the crime after being questioned for nearly 24 hours, they said. The body of the one and a half year old boy, who was missing from home since the early hours of Monday, was found among the rocks on the nearby Thayyil beach the same day.

The incident had taken place when the boy's father had come to see the child after three months. After the baby went missing, the statements of the parents were contradictory following which police questioned them separately for hours. "Initially the mother had told us that she left the child near her husband in the night. But later in the evening, she confessed that she took the boy outside the house and threw him among the rocks near the sea in the night," a police officer told PTI.