Overview

• A call about a woman wielding a knife in Chembur led Tilak Nagar Police to detain the 43-year-old and question her motives.
• Under interrogation, she admitted to strangling her six-month-old son earlier that morning at her Govandi residence.
• Officers discovered the infant’s body lying lifeless in a cradle and sent it to Rajawadi Hospital for postmortem.
• The mother and child had both tested HIV positive, and she told police mounting debts drove her to kill her son.
• Investigations by Tilak Nagar and Shivaji Nagar units continue after a murder case was registered against her.