Man pushes son from bridge to take revenge on wife in Surat

Surat: A scrap dealer allegedly killed his 12-year-old son by pushing him into Tapi River from the bridge to take revenge from his estranged wife.
Police arrested the 31-year-old man Saeed Shaikh who had earlier claimed that his son Jakir accidentally fell from the Vivekananda bridge while clicking a selfie on Sunday. Jakir’s body was fished out by the fire department on Monday near Shital Cross Road on the river bank.
“We suspected some wrongdoing as it was difficult to believe Shaikh’s claim that the boy was sitting on the bridge’s parapet wall,” said a police officer in Rander police station. Investigation so far revealed that Shaikh had developed a bitter dispute with his wife after which she went to live with her parents in Chikhli of Buldhana in Maharashtra five years ago.
“Shaikh wanted to harm the child to take revenge from his wife as she did return. He tried hurting the child in the past too,” said a police official.
He brought the boy to the city against the wishes of his wife, and on Sunday, he told his son that they will go to buy crackers. But he took him to the bridge and pushed him from the parapet. He then shouted for help and fabricated the story that it was an accident while clicking a selfie.