Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) A woman has been arrested on the alleged charges of strangling her two-year-old son to death in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, the police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place in Uttar Durgapur village of Mathurapur police station area in South 24 Parganas district.
The deceased child’s name is Raktim Haldar.
The entire family is blaming the mother Ketaki Haldar for his unnatural death.
The elder son of the woman from her first marriage has accused the mother of murder.
According to the police, the incident took place around 5 p.m. on Monday.
It is alleged that Ketaki strangled her two-year-old son to death.
The woman’s 13-year-old minor son from her first marriage was present at the time of the gruesome incident.
The family claimed that the mother killed the younger son in front of the elder son.
It is learned that Ketaki married a man named Ramesh Haldar a few days after her divorce from her first husband. Their son is Raktim.
According to family members, Ketaki does not always keep the elder son with her, even though she is in contact with the son. The minor lives elsewhere. However, he was with his mother on Monday.
The boy said that his mother had killed his brother.
Ketaki’s in-laws alleged that after killing their son, the woman planned to throw him into a pond to make it look like an accident. Ketaki even threatened the elder son when he saw the mother committing the crime.
Based on the complaint, officers from Mathurapur police station went to the house.
After recovering the child’s body, the police spoke to Ketaki’s elder son and his family following which the woman was arrested late Monday night.
However, it is not clear why the woman killed her son.
“It is being investigated whether there was a family dispute or some other reason behind it. The woman has been arrested and she has been charged with murdering her child. A case has been registered against her. Investigation is on,” a senior officer of Sundarban police district said.
–IANS
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