BHOPAL: For practically two months, a lady in jail in MP’s Guna on expenses of murdering her 14-year-old son, stored pleading that she was harmless. Her husband, too, backed her publicly, dismissing the police declare that she killed the boy as a result of he objected to her ‘garments and bindi’. Now, a Particular Investigation Group (SIT) has cleared her.
The SIT believes the boy died by suicide, presumably pushed by tutorial stress.
The homicide expenses have been pressed in opposition to her following the autopsy report, which indicated ‘strangulation,’ though police failed to say a transparent motive on the time of her arrest. Her husband’s decided effort to show her innocence led to the formation of an SIT, which overturned the preliminary assumptions. Police are actually making ready to file a dismissal report within the case.
On the night of Feb 14, 2025, the Class 8 pupil was discovered hanging from a towel hanger within the rest room of their dwelling. The door was locked from inside. His mom, who had gone out to play badminton, returned round 7. 45pm and located the door locked. After acquiring a spare key from the owner, she entered the lavatory and located her son useless.
The district hospital’s autopsy report indicated strangulation, which led police to deal with the case as a homicide.
An FIR was filed on Feb 22, and after preliminary investigations, the mom was arrested on March 8 and remanded in jail. Nonetheless, Alka maintained her innocence all through the investigation.
Alka’s husband, a financial institution auditor, raised considerations in regards to the investigation, and filed a grievance with the Director Basic of Police (DGP). Consequently, DIG Amit Sanghi ordered the formation of an SIT to re-examine the case.
“Because the matter is within the courtroom, we can not disclose the SIT’s discovering. We performed a really minute investigation into the matter and can take crucial motion,” Sanghi advised TOI.
Based on sources SIT had sought a second medicolegal opinion from Gandhi Medical Faculty in Bhopal, which concluded that the reason for demise was ‘partial hanging’.
Additionally, name data from the mom’s telephone confirmed she was on calls all through the time of her son’s demise, with solely a 20-minute hole, making it inconceivable that she might have dedicated the crime and staged the scene inside such a brief window. Investigations additionally revealed that the door was locked from inside, and the important thing was discovered inside the home, indicating no exterior involvement.
The SIT discovered that the boy was combating research. He had failed two topics and scored solely 28 marks out of 80 in his Hindi examination on the day of his demise. Investigators consider tutorial strain led to the suicide.
Had the husband not solidly backed his spouse and demanded a contemporary probe, she might have spent years behind bars with the stigma of murdering their son. He disputed the police model, insisting that his spouse had no motive to hurt their son.
He was away in Bhopal on the day of the homicide however had spoken with each of them over telephone. He recalled that his son was in excessive spirits, and there was no indication of any points between mom and son.
The daddy questioned police’s investigation, significantly their delayed response to the crime scene and alleged ‘mishandling of essential proof’. He demanded that CCCV footage of close by areas be checked. His persistence led to the formation of an SIT that finally cleared his spouse.
