Mother, paramour held in Coimbatore for killing six-year-old boy

TNN | Updated: Apr 21, 2020, 10:49 IST

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COIMBATORE: The city police on Monday arrested a 24-year-old woman and her 28-year-old lover for murdering her six-year-old son at Kovilmedu here.
Dhivya, wife of Arun of Kovilmedu and her paramour Rajadurai, a native of Kombai in Theni district, were arrested for killing her son A Abhishek. “Dhivya was staying with her son and a three-year-old daughter in a rented house at Kovilmedu after separating from Arun, a cab driver hailing from Gudalur in the Nilgiris. She had befriended Rajadurai, a call taxi driver, while working for a private company. He soon moved in with Dhivya,” a police officer said.
Rajadurai treated Abhishek as a nuisance and used to beat him up. “Dhivya also used to thrash the boy and once branded him with a hot iron. The houseowner, who came to know about the incident, asked Dhivya to vacate the house. She shifted to another house in Kovilmedu on March 26 but continued to torture the boy. Last Saturday, the boy became unconscious after Dhivya and Rajadurai thrashed him. She bought some medicines from a medical shop and gave it to the boy, after which he became normal. On Sunday around 10am, the boy again became unconscious and died soon,” the officer told TOI.
Dhivya called the 108 ambulance services and an ambulance reached the home. The medical staff told Dhivya that the boy was dead. They also informed the Saibaba Colony police.
Dhivya and Rajadurai confessed to the crime during police interrogation on Sunday. They were arrested and remanded in judicial custody on Monday evening. Both of them were booked under sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. TNN