A Nepali woman and her nine-month-old child were found hanging Ratnari Village in the Jubbal-Kotkhai area of Shimla district, police said on Tuesday, Hindustan Times reported.
The woman's husband, a labourer, had found them hanging when he returned from work on Sunday. The family worked in a local apple orchard.
A team from the Kotkhai Police Station reached the incident site and launched a probe soon after they got the information.
The police have sent the bodies for postmortem.