AURANGABAD: A woman has been arrested by the Jalna police for allegedly conspiring with two other accused to kidnap and kill the former’s six-year-old boy.
According to police, the accused, Sheetal Ughade of Davargaon village, had an illicit relationship and the child, Aditya, was a hurdle for her. Sheetal along with her paramour, Navnath Jagdhane, and his friend Ganesh Rokde hatched a plan to get rid of the child.
As per the plan, Jagdhane and Rokde kidnapped Aditya and killed him by stuffing a cloth ball in his mouth.
Superintendent of police Vinayak Deshmukh said prima facie it appears to be a planned murder.
“The accused woman along with her son gone to Ambad for treatment of a relative. There she stepped out of the hospital on the pretext of getting medicines and handed over the kid to her paramour who fled from the scene,” he said.
Police had registered a case of kidnapping and started looking for the suspect as described by the woman. Later, Aditya was found murdered with his body lying in the vicinity of a nullah in Ghansawngi.
