Lucknow: A 45-year-old woman allegedly poisoned her eight-year-old son to hide an alleged extramarital affair with her neighbour in Dadri’s Jon Samana village. The child’s body was recovered from a drain in Sambhal on July 7.
The woman, Bhuri, her lover, Ompal Singh, who is a keyman in the railways, was among the four people arrested on Tuesday in the case, police said. They were produced in a local court on Wednesday and sent to judicial custody.
DCP (Central Noida) Anil Kumar Yadav said, the boy, Ankit, had caught her mother in a compromising position with Ompal on June 28 and threatened to tell his father Kalyan Singh. Bhuri and Ompal had then connived to kill the boy.
During the investigation, cops found that Bhuri had sent Ankit to his stepsister’s house in a Badalpur village on July 2 without informing Kalyan.
“When the boy did not come home for three days, Kalyan submitted a police complaint on July 5 and an FIR on charges of kidnapping (IPC Section 363) was filed. Ankit’s body was found just two days later in a drain in Sambhal, which is Kalyan’s native town. The autopsy stated drowning as the cause of death,” the DCP said.
According to cops, on July 6 Bhuri had visited the Badalpur village to meet her son. She gave him a Sulphas tablet— a poisonous agricultural fumigant — on the pretext of giving him some other pill.
“Ankit fainted soon after she left and his stepsister’s father-in-law Amar Singh along with the boy’s uncle Manak took the boy to Sambhal and threw him into the drain and left the boy to drown. So far, we have found that Bhuri and Ompal had together hatched the plan to kill the boy. We are still investigating why Amar and Manak didn’t alert Kalyan about it,” the DCP added.
The four accused have been charged under IPC sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence),120B (party to criminal conspiracy), 34 (act done by several people with common intention) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
