Adampur woman held for murdering 12-year-old son

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, September 25

The Jalandhar rural police on Friday arrested Gurmeet Kaur, an Adampur resident, on the charge of murdering her 12-year-old son, whose body was found in the fields of Padhiana village in Adampur on September 17. A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered against the woman.

On the complaint of the victim’s mother the police started investigation of the case. On September 24, Gurmeet’s father-in-law (boy’s grandfather) alleged that his daughter-in-law had murdered the boy and sought detailed investigation.

The police said during investigation the woman confessed her crime. Gurmeet lived with her three children at Padhiana village, while her in-laws lived next door in another house. Her husband Amarpreet Singh lives in Dubai. The police said the boy had seen his mother with her paramour. The boy threatened to inform his father about his mother’s affair. Enraged over this, the woman killed the child. DSP Harinder Singh said, “During interrogation, her replies did not satisfy the police. She took her son to the fields, mixed sulphas tablets in the drink and hit his head with a brick.”