PUNE: A 22-year-old woman’s alleged attempt to erase her past ended in her arrest after a month. The woman is accused of killing her 11-month-old son, dumping his body into a well, and leaving home without a trace. She then reportedly married another man to start a new life while keeping the crime hidden.Her former husband came across a photograph of the woman with another man and contacted her, asking her to return their son. When she avoided him, he approached the Ranjangaon MIDC police on April 5 and filed a missing person’s complaint.A police team led by inspector Mahadev Waghmode traced the woman to Shirur taluka and took her into custody. When questioned about her son, she initially claimed that he had died after accidentally falling from a platform in her house. She said that, out of fear, she dumped the body into a well near her former husband’s house in Shirur taluka.“We searched the well and found the boy’s body inside a bag. The woman had placed stones in the bag to prevent it from floating,” Waghmode said.The officer added that during sustained questioning, the woman allegedly confessed to killing her son on March 8 by banging his head against a cement platform. “She wanted to leave her husband and remarry. She believed her son would be an obstacle to her second marriage and so killed him,” he said.He further said that a few days before the incident, the woman had gone on a trip to Konkan with her husband and son. “She became frustrated as the child cried throughout the trip. After returning home, she expected her husband to take them to a doctor, but he instead went to attend a wedding. Irritated by this, she allegedly killed the child,” he added.She then took money from her house and left. “She first went to Shirur and purchased a new cellphone. Later, through a marriage agent, she remarried without informing her second husband that she had a son,” Waghmode said.According to the officer, the woman’s first husband contacted her new husband on April 3 and told him that she could stay with him only after returning the child.“The woman had told the marriage agent about the alleged accident involving her child. The agent informed the police, and her former husband also lodged a complaint,” Waghmode said.The woman has been charged under sections 103 (murder) and 23 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
