A four-year-old boy was strangled to death in the early hours of Saturday in Kandivali West area of Maharashtra’s Mumbai. The murder, which took place around 3 am, was captured on a CCTV camera, according to officials.
The victim, identified as Ansh Ansari, was from a family of pavement dwellers, news agency PTI reported.
The family was sleeping on the roadside in the Iraniwadi locality when, according to the CCTV camera footage, a man arrived in the area on a bicycle, carried the boy a few feet away, and throttled him to death with his hands, the official said.
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The body of the child was discovered an hour later by his family. The Kandivali police have registered a murder case and launched a probe to track down the killer, the official added.
Pune techie kills 3-year-old son
In another unrelated incident, a 38-year-old Pune techie allegedly killed his 3-year-old son on the suspicion that his wife was having an affair.
The man slit the throat and threw his body in a forested area. The incident took place in Pune’s Chandan Nagar area where the father was later found drunk in a lodge.
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According to the police, the accused Madhav suspected his wife of infidelity. On Thursday afternoon a quarrel erupted between the couple. Enraged and clouded by suspicion, Madhav left the house, taking his young son with him.
He spent the early part of the day sitting in a bar before leaving around 12:30 PM. From there, he proceeded to a supermarket and later ventured into a forested area near Chandan Nagar.
In another incident, a UP court on Friday sentenced a woman and her lover to life imprisonment for killing her five-year-old stepson, PTI reported.
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According to the district police spokesperson, the boy had seen his stepmother in a compromising position with her lover, a resident of Khanpur in Bulandshahr, the agency further reported.
Fearing that their affair might get exposed, the duo strangled the boy to death, stuffed the body in a trunk and hid it in the house, the spokesperson said.