Local police on Sunday said that a 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife and later setting her and their four-month-old baby boy on fire following an argument. They said that the matter came to light this morning after some villagers of Kondapur found two charred bodies in a plot and had alerted the police.
Preliminary inquiry has revealed that the accused got married to the woman in 2015 and the couple had a baby boy. The woman was living with her parents for the past few months after differences cropped up between them, said a police release.
The woman on Saturday evening had met her husband and both had gone to Ghatkesar, where they had a disagreement following which she consumed sleeping pills and also fed the powder of a pill to the infant as well, police said.
Later, the accused took them to a vacant plot and choked both of them before putting their bodies on a heap of sticks and setting them ablaze.