New Delhi: A 24-year-old Delhi woman taught her lover a lesson by killing his 11-year-old son and dumping the body in a box bed before fleeing the scene.
Pooja Kumari, the accused later called up her boyfriend and spitefully told him, “I took away the most precious thing from you.”
Police cracked the passion crime by following an extensive search and arrested the woman five days after the murder.
According to police, Pooja had been in a live-in relationship with Jitender, a married man with a child, since 2019 and reportedly got married in an Arya Samaj temple on October 17. However, they couldn’t register the marriage since Jitendra had not divorced his wife.
Pooja and Jitendra allegedly had frequent quarrels, and the latter moved out of their rented house last December and returned to his wife and son.
This infuriated Pooja, who held Jitender’s minor son responsible for leaving her, and his reluctance to file for divorce, crime branch police said.
“As Jitender was already married and had a son, he assured her that he will get married in court after getting divorce from his wife. Jitender and Pooja started living together in a rented house. Meanwhile, quarrels started between Jitender and Pooja on the matter of divorcing his wife. After some time Jitender refused to get divorced from his wife,” India Today quoted a police official as saying.
After a murder case was registered against Pooja, police analysed hundreds of CCTV footage near the crime scene. It was the footage of a camera outside the boy’s house that helped police identify the accused.
The video showed a woman, her face covered with a blue scarf, entering the house. Some time later, she is seen with a bag in her hand.
In another footage, the woman is seen walking away while trying to cover her face with a scarf.
The investigators were eventually convinced that the last person to visit Jitender’s house in Inderpuri was Pooja.
Pooja located Jitender’s house in Inderpuri with the help of a common friend and reached there on August 10. She found the door open, and the boy was sleeping.
In a fit of anger, she strangled the 11-year-old boy to death. She then took out clothes and other stuff stored inside the box bed and put the boy’s body in it.
