PUNE: A 27-year-old woman and her live-in partner killed former’s son (6) by banging his head to a bathroom wall and drowning him in a bucket on April 4 at her partner’s apartment at Kuruli village in Khed.The woman and her partner then took the boy’s body to her parents’ home in Beed district and told them that the kid had died of heart attack. The woman’s father suspected foul play and informed her in-laws about their grandson’s untimely death. When the woman’s in-laws saw the body, they also became suspicious after seeing injury marks and alerted the local police.The Parali Rural police sent the body for the post-mortem, which confirmed that the boy died of drowning. They registered a case of accidental death and sent the woman to the South Mahalunge police on Wednesday.Police sub-inspector S R Jaybhaye of the South Mahalunge police said, “During interrogation, the woman admitted to killing her son. We have arrested her. Search was launched for her partner.”Jaybhaye said the woman hails from Beed district. She had a dispute with her husband. She has not been living with him. About four months ago, she came to Kuruli with her husband’s friend, a cab driver, and started living-in with him with her son. “During the questioning, the woman revealed that for the last one month, her partner used to quarrel with her and was forcing her to send their son back to either her parents or her husband,” Jaybhaye said.The officer said the woman claimed that her son had become an obstacle in her new relationship. She and her partner killed the boy by banging his head on the bathroom wall and drowning him in a bucket. “They took the body to Beed district in the woman’s partner’s cab. However, the woman’s parents and in-laws suspected foul play,” the officer said.He said the woman was remanded to police custody for five days. “Our investigations are on,” he said.
