A 38-year-old IT engineer, Madhav Tiketi, allegedly killed his 3.5-year-old son in a fit of rage, driven by suspicions about his wife’s character.
According to a senior police official, Madhav, who had been unemployed for two months, slit his son’s throat and abandoned the body in a deserted area. The case came to light after the child’s mother filed a missing complaint at Chandan nagar police station.
Police reviewed CCTV footage, which showed Madhav with his son at 2:30 pm on Thursday, but alone by 5:00 pm while purchasing clothes. Tracking his mobile location, authorities found him at a lodge in Vadgaonsheri, where he was discovered intoxicated. Upon regaining consciousness, he confessed to the crime, leading police to the crime scene, where the child’s blood-soaked body was recovered.
DCP (Zone 4) Himmat Jadhav stated that Madhav’s increasing suspicion about his wife’s character led him to doubt his son’s paternity, which ultimately drove him to commit the heinous act.
He further said, “At around 2 am on Friday, Swaroopa (mother of the deceased) had given a complaint that her husband, along with her 3.5-year-old son, was missing. Upon investigation, we took the accused in custody from a lodge, and it was revealed that over suspicion of her wife’s character, he murdered his child. We have arrested the accused father, recovered the dead body of the son, and sent him to Sassoon Hospital for post-mortem for further investigation.”
The accused, originally from Visakhapatnam, was arrested following due legal procedure under BNS Sections 103 (1) and 238 in a case registered at Chandan nagar police station under Pune city police jurisdiction.