Panipat man kills 3-yr-old son, held

Tribune News Service

Panipat, September 18

A man on Wednesday killed his three-year-old son reportedly by strangulating him and also tried to kill himself at TDI colony here.

The Sector 13/17 police registered a case against the man and arrested him in the evening. The police will produce him in court on Thursday.

The deceased was identified as Yash while his father was identified as Pramod. When Pramod tried to kill himself, the rope broke.

Sakshi, mother of Yash and wife of Pramod, in her complaint to the police said that she had had a love marriage with Pramod after they came close on facebook five years ago.

She was working as government teacher at Government Primary School in Shiv Nagar at Panipat and living in TDI.

She alleged that her husband was torturing her for dowry after marriage. As a result, there were regular feuds between them.

They quarrelled on Wednesday morning and after that, she went to school. Pramod and Yash were at home, she added.

She received a call at around 10 am from her husband who told her that he was going to Bhiwani with Yash. When she reached home, she saw that Yash was in her husband’s hands and he said that he had murdered Yash by strangulation, she added.

Inspector Anil Kumar, SHO, Sector 13/17 police, along with a team reached the spot to inquire into the matter. A case was registered under Section 302, 34 of the IPC against Pramod, the SHO said. Prima facie, the cause behind the murder was a feud between husband and wife, he added.