Overview
- The Vijayapura Rural police arrested Mallikarjun Harikeri and say he admitted pushing his son Siddharth into the Krishna River near Karad in Maharashtra.
- The child was taken from Nagathana on the pretext of school admission on March 15–16, and an unidentified boy’s body was found in Karad on March 16.
- Photographs shared by Karad police helped confirm the body was Siddharth, which led Karnataka police to upgrade the missing-person file to a murder case.
- Family alarm grew on April 1, the boy’s birthday, when his mother insisted on bringing him home and the father disappeared.
- Officers say the accused has been remanded to custody and they are continuing cross-border inquiries into the suspected paternity motive and his movements.