Man beats son to death on villager’s complaint in Jamui

PATNA: A man brutally thrashed his 10-year-old son on a co-villager’s complaint that the boy had damaged his few plants of pulse (arhar) at village Pairgaha under Jhajha police station area of Jamui on March 12. The boy died during treatment. Later, the accused, Vinod Pandit, buried his son Sonu Kumar’s body on the bank of river Kathara on the outskirts of his village to hide his crime.
The matter came to light when Vinod’s wife Gudiya Devi approached Jhajha police station on Tuesday to lodge an FIR against her husband for killing their son.
Jamui SP Pramod Kumar Mandal said Vinod had kept Gudiya captive inside their house so that she could not approach the police about the incident. “She managed to escape and told other villagers about her son’s death,” the SP said.
He said the body was exhumed on Tuesday and sent for postmortem. Mandal said raids were on to nab Vinod, who was absconding.
Jhajha police station SHO Srikant Kumar said a villager on March 12 complained to Vinod against his son. “The minor had damaged some of his pulse plants in the field,” he said.
“In fit of rage, he started thrashing Sonu mercilessly. While thrashing, Sonu climbed up on an elevated platform made up of bamboo to save himself, but fell down,” he said.
Kumar said Sonu remained under treatment almost for a day but died probably due to severe injury in any of his vital organs.
He said the postmortem report is awaited to know what kind of internal injury actually resulted in Sonu’s death.