Overview
- The mother’s partner carried the five-year-old to the Kamareddy government hospital, where doctors declared the child dead.
- Police say the attack occurred at the family’s rented home in Sriram Nagar Colony while the mother was away.
- Officers arrested the mother and her live-in partner and registered a murder case after a relative filed a complaint.
- The eight-year-old sister told investigators the man slapped the boy, poured chilli powder in his eyes, smothered him, threw him, doused him with water, and stomped on him.
- Police say the pair viewed the boy as blocking a planned marriage and plan to present the accused before a magistrate for remand.