Delhi bed box murder case: Woman arrested for killing live-in partner's 11-year-old son

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly killing son of her live-in partner and stuffing his body in a bed box, police said on Tuesday.

accused, Pooja Kumari, a resident of Ranhola, killed 11-year-old Divyansh, holding mir responsible for his far t divorcing his wife, police said.

On Thursday, around 8.30 pm, police received information from BLK Hospital that a boy had been brought dead and re were strangulation marks on his neck.

During investigation, foot from a CCTV camera was examined. It showed that last person who visited 11-year-old boy's house was woman, Pooja Kumari, a senior police officer said.

She had strangled child to death when he was sleeping and n concealed his body inside bed box, police said and added that woman was in a live-in relation with boy's far Jitender.

Police checked foot of more than 300 CCTV cameras, leading to her arrest, Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said.

foot showed woman in areas on Najafgarh Nangloi Road -- Ranhola, Nihal Vihar and Rishal Garden. Her location was zeroed in at Bakkarwala, officials said. Reportedly, Pooja Kumari and Jitender had married at a temple of arya Samaj on October 17, 2019. But a court marri was t possible as Jitender had t divorced his wife, police said.

Jitender had assured Pooja Kumari that y would get married in court after he gets a divorce from his wife, according to police. Jitender and Pooja Kumari, however, started living toger by renting a house.

y often quarrelled over Jitender's divorce and after sometime, he moved out of rented house and started staying with his wife, police said.

He had moved out in December last year, and Pooja Kumari was furious about it. She assumed that Jitender left her because of his son, Yadav said.

On Thursday, she met her friend and asked him to take her to Jitender's house, police said.

door of house was open and she killed Divyansh, who was sleeping, y said and added that she took out clos from bed box and put body inside it. PTI NIT ANB ANB