Woman and lover sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of her 1-yr-old son

The next day, a tractor driver unearthed the body while plowing the field and alerted the police.
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HYDERABAD: A local court sentenced a woman, Enkepally Mahalaxmi alias Laxmi, and her paramour, Pothuganti Srikanth Reddy, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each for the murder of Laxmi’s 1.5-year-old son, Avinash. The court found that the duo killed the boy on June 19, 2014, fearing he might disrupt their illicit relationship.

According to the prosecution, after eloping from their homes with Avinash, the accused hatched a plan to kill him. In a rented house in Mokila, Srikanth throttled the boy by pressing his neck with his leg, while Laxmi suffocated him. They buried the child’s body in a field. The next day, a tractor driver unearthed the body while plowing the field and alerted the police.

Initially registered as a suspicious death under Section 174 Cr.P.C., the case was altered to Sections 302 and 201 IPC after the boy’s father, Enkepally Parshuram, identified the deceased as his son. Parshuram revealed that Laxmi had eloped with Srikanth Reddy after developing an illicit relationship while working as a laborer. The police apprehended the accused on June 24, 2014, at Shankarpalli railway station. Both confessed to the murder and led the police to the burial site, where they had used a crowbar and spade to conceal the body.

A postmortem report confirmed asphyxiation due to neck pressure as the cause of death. The court concluded that the murder was premeditated and upheld the prosecution’s case, leading to the life-term sentence.

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