Mother held for killing minor son

Prayagraj: A 35-year old woman was arrested by police on the charges of killing her five-year-old son at Kanauja Kala village in the limits of Phulpur police station here on early Wednesday. The accused woman, identified as Renu, was a resident of Saraymamrez who had allegedly stabbed her minor son identified as Rishi Kumar (5), to death with the help of a shovel.
Deputy SP (Phulpur) Umesh Sharma told TOI that the accused woman, said to be mentally challenged, was caught by a group of villagers when she was allegedly taking the body of minor to dump into a nearby well.
He added, “ Cousin of the accused named as Radhika spotted the mother taking the seriously injured son bleeding profusely towards nearby well and raised an alarm”. The villagers caught the woman red handed and locked her in a room.
DSP said that the woman along with her two minor sons had come to her parents’ house in Phulpur village about 20 days back. Her husband Ramesh Patel is a private driver and lives in Saraymamrez. Police said that the woman had hit the shovel on the forehead of her five year old son. The boy was bleeding profusely yet she picked him up and was on the way to a nearby well to dump him when she was caught by the villagers on the family member’s alarm.
The villagers took the injured boy to community health centre where doctors referred him to SRN but boy died on the way to the hospital. When police quizzed the accused mother, she replied, “Jo bhagwan ne diya tha, maini usko bhagwan ke pass wapas kar diya ( whatever God gifted me, I sent his gift back to him).
The accused brother told police that the woman was mentally challenged and was undergoing treatment for past four years. Few months back, she had stopped taking medicines. The body of minor boy was sent for post mortem examination. The woman has another son aged about eight years.