Firozabad:
A man who had killed a one-and-a-half-year-old child by slamming him against the ground has been arrested after an exchange of fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad. Jitendra Pathak, alias Viraj, suffered a gunshot wound to his leg during the encounter. He admitted that he wanted to marry the child’s mother, but she had refused, saying she already had a child.
The Murder
Viraj viewed Rati’s marriage and her son, Aarav, as obstacles to their marriage. So he came up with a plan.
On Saturday, he took Aarav away on the pretext of buying him toffees. He killed him by repeatedly slamming him against the ground. By the time Aarav’s family members came to know about it, it was too late. They rushed him to a hospital, but he was declared dead by the doctors. Viraj had fled by then.
The child’s mother, Rati, told the cops that Viraj had been constantly pressuring her to marry her and had taken away Aarav, promising that he would buy him a toffee.
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