A person allegedly killed his five-year-old son by slitting his throat at RS Colony under the Bandhamunda police station in the city on Monday.
The accused was identified as Andhu Oram. Later, he was arrested by police on charges of murder.
Andhu’s wife, Sunkha, spotted the boy’s blood-stained body on the bed and screamed following which neighbours rushed to Andhu’s house and immediately informed the police about the matter.
Being informed, cops reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem and nabbed the accused. Later, a scientific team also reached the spot to investigate.
While the exact motive behind the brutal crime is yet to be ascertained, it was initially suspected that Oram murdered his son after a dispute with his wife.
But preliminary investigations revealed that Andhu might have taken the extreme step after suspecting that his wife has an extramarital relationship. Following the suspicion about his wife having an affair with another man, Andhu killed the boy while his wife was in the bathroom, sources said.
Andhu was interrogated by police and a detailed investigation into the incident was on.