Woman, son murdered by her paramour in Bhavnagar

Rajkot: A strained relationship between two divorced persons ended in a brutal murder of the 30-year-old woman and her 12-year-old son with the boy’s body being recovered from a sewer in Bhavnagar on Thursday night.
Police first found the body of Shivam Joshi from the sewer on Sidsar-Vartej road and further investigation led them to the flat in which his mother Ankita was killed.
The crime was allegedly executed by Ankita’s paramour Hemal Shah in Jan Kalyan Apartment on Waghwadi Road where he lived. Shah and Ankita, who are both divorced, were in a relationship for the past one year and she had come to live with him permanently with her son on Thursday. Shah has an air-condition repair shop.
On finding Shivam’s body, police thoroughly scanned the CCTV cameras and narrowed down on some cars which looked suspicious from their movements. At the same time, they also got information from Jan Kalyan Apartment about some untoward incident.
When police reached the apartment, they found Ankita lying dead in a pool of blood. They picked up Shah for questioning and he confessed to have committed the crime.
“Shah slit the throats of the woman and her son. There was some bitter quarrel between them when Ankita came to his house to start living there. However, we are still questioning the accused to ascertain the reason behind such a ghastly crime,” said Safi Hassan, assistant superintendent of police, Bhavnagar.
After killing Ankita and Shivam, Shah dumped the latter’s body in his car and threw it in the drainage line, around seven km from his apartment, as it was an isolated spot with minimal human movement. Police have also recovered an axe and a knife from the crime spot and sent the weapons for forensic examination.
Sources in the police department said that Shah was earlier booked in offences of prohibition, thefts as well as cruelty towards animals as he had mercilessly flogged a stray dog in the past.