Ahmedabad, A mentally disturbed man from a village in Ahmedabad district allegedly killed his 10-year-old son by smashing his head against the altar of a goddess in his house and slept beside the body on a cot, police said on Monday.
After being alerted, the police arrested the accused and launched an investigation into the case. When she reached the village around 9.30 pm, she found the child lying on a cot covered in blood, with an injury on his forehead.
The accused, Naresh Patel, a farm labourer, was at home with his son as his wife Bhartiben had gone to her parents’ home after a quarrel with him, Sanand police station’s inspector Jayprakash Chauhan said. Patel was lying on the same cot, his clothes bloodstained, according to the FIR. The incident occurred at Vinchhiya village in Sanand taluka on Sunday night. A neighbour called her on Sunday night to inform her about the incident.
The accused allegedly told her that he had sacrificed their only son at the goddess’s altar so that no one in the family would become a “bhuva” after him, according to a complaint lodged by Bhartiben. As per the woman, when she asked her husband about their son’s death, Patel said his father was a “bhuva” for the goddess, and that he had taken on the role after him. He said he sacrificed their only son so that no one in the family would become a “bhuva” after him, she claimed.
