'Cigarettes burns, fatal head injury': Kerala toddler abused ‘extremely brutally’ by mother, her lover

Kerala mother, partner held for toddler’s death

A toddler in Kerala died from internal bleeding after sustaining 51 injuries inflicted by his mother's live-in partner over several weeks; both were arrested and charged with murder under the Juvenile Justice Act. The case exposes a systemic failure: a formal complaint filed by the child's grandmother was dismissed by police, raising accountability questions about institutional child protection mechanisms.