Overview
- A local court remanded 22-year-old Pooja Ravindra Pawar to police custody till April 10 on Tuesday following her arrest a day earlier.
- The search, which began Sunday after her husband reported her and their son missing, led police to trace her to Jambut village within hours.
- Police say she first claimed the infant died in an accidental fall, then confessed during questioning to killing him on March 8 and dumping the body in a well using a bag weighted with stones.
- Investigators recovered the decomposed body from a well on family land, conducted an on-site inquest and autopsy, and collected evidence with forensic and medical teams.
- Ranjangaon MIDC police booked her under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023—India’s new criminal code—for murder and destroying evidence, and cited her statements about wanting to remarry and the child’s crying as part of the ongoing case.