Daijiworld Media Network - Ballari (SP)

Ballari, Nov 11: A woman and her paramour, who had escaped after killing the woman's four-year-old son, stand arrested by the police personnel of Hospet station.

Reportedly, the child, named Pradeep, was killed by his mother, Ningamma, and her lover, Kumar, as his presence was conceived as an obstacle in their love life. During police interrogation, both reportedly confessed that they killed the small boy as they perceived him to be a stumbling block in their future life. This was stated by superintendent of police, R Chetan, at a press conference held here on Monday November 9.

Ningamma (27) from Gavisiddeshwaranagara in Hospet had married Virupakshi, resident of Danayakana Kere village in Hospet taluk. In course of time, she came in contact with H J Kumar from the same village, who worked as lorry cleaner. After the two had illicit relationship for sometime, Ningamma deserted her husband's home and started living with Kumar in a house in Gavisiddeshwaranagara on Jambunath Road, Hospet.

As the child often functioned as a deterrent in their love life, the duo killed the boy by inhumanly attacking the baby on September 28 before fleeing to Bengaluru. The child, which was struggling for life because of lethal injuries inflicted on it, was admitted by its grandmother into Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences at Ballari with help from locals. But Pradeep died the next day, September 29.

Pradeep's grandmother also filed a complaint in Hospet police station, alleging that Ningamma and Kumar had together killed her grandson. The police personnel, during their investigation, found out that the couple were lying low at Bengaluru, and arrested them.