Bangalore:
A woman threw her six-year-old son with special needs into a crocodile-infested canal in Karnataka after a fight with her husband. The child's half-eaten body was found a day later, police said Monday.
Savitri, 32, who works as a domestic help, often argued with her husband Ravi Kumar, 36, over their son Vinod, who was born deaf and mute. They also have a two-year-old son.
Savitri told police that Ravi, who works as a bricklayer, repeatedly taunted her and told her to kill their son by throwing him into the canal.
“My husband is responsible. He kept saying: let the son die and that he only eats. Leave him alone, I would say. If my husband keeps saying that, how much torture can my son endure? Where should I go? ?” going to share my pain,” she said.
After a similar fight on Saturday, Savitri took her son to the canal in Uttara Kannada district and threw him into the crocodile-infested waters.
Local people alerted the police, who launched a search together with the fire brigade. The search continued overnight and the child's body was found the next morning. The right arm was missing and there were bite marks all over the body, indicating that the child had been killed by a crocodile.
Both Ravi and Savitri have been arrested and a murder case has been registered against them, police said.