In a private hospital in Hyderabad, a woman drowned her newborn child in a bucket of water minutes after the delivery as per stated by police.

The police said She joined the private hospital as a lab technician last week and was around six months' pregnant. The hospital people didn't know about her pregnancy.

The police officer said that On Sunday, she was the evening shift. At around 1.30 AM yesterday, some hospital workers heard the cries of a baby from a washroom in the premises. 

They immediately open the door by force and found the baby dead in the bucket. The woman also had heavy bleeding following the delivery and was admitted to the same hospital for treatment, he said.

A case has been registered against the woman under IPC section 302 (murder).

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