Mum kills baby boy, blames in-laws for not giving him food

Frustrated with her in-laws for not providing enough food for her 18-month-old son, a 20-year-old woman allegedly killed the infant recently and dumped the body near her residence.

The accused, Padma Vishnu Shinde, then lodged a complaint of kidnapping with the police to avoid becoming a suspect in the case. The police arrested her late on Thursday after she allegedly confessed to the crime.

A resident of Khodala village in Mokhada, Dahanu taluka, Shinde complained to the police on September 22 that when she was washing clothes, her son Chetan went missing. The police filed a case of kidnapping. The body was found three days later in a well 100m from Shinde’s residence. The post-mortem revealed that the boy was murdered. Shinde’s husband is an employee of a local manufacturing firm.

An officer of Mokhada police station said, “Multiple teams were formed to trace the baby...
We found his body in the well. After the post-mortem report revealed murder, we interrogated the mother and she confessed to the crime. She said that she killed him by crushing his neck with her foot.”

“She was frustrated that her in-laws did not give her son adequate food. We have arrested her under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destroying evidence) of the Indian Penal Code,” said another officer. She was sent to Thane jail.