Namakkal: In a shocking incident, a 32-year-old farmer tortured and stoned his 11-month-old son to death and buried the body in his farm at Jameen Ilampillai village in Namakkal district.
The farmer, P. Tamizhselvan was arrested last December for torturing his wife and pushing her to suicide. Police said that he had banged the little child on the floor and pounded the child’s head with stones suspecting that the baby was born of an illicit affair of his wife, the police said.
The body of the child buried in the 25 acre farm was exhumed and a post-mortem was performed at the same spot by the government doctors on Wednesday.
The police have arrested Tamizhselvan for having killed his own child.
According to the police, Tamizhselvan was married to Revathi. The couple had a four-year-old girl, Mallika and a 11-month-old son.
Tamizhselvan suspected that his wife had an illicit affair and frequently tortured her. Unable to bear the torture, she took poison and killed herself in December 2015. Meanwhile, the police arrested Tamizhselvan for abetting his wife’s suicide. His sister was taking care of Tamizhselvan’s two children.
On March 18, Tamizhselvan who came out on bail, forcibly took the two children to his house. While Mallika was in the house, Dharneesh, was missing. So Tamizhselvan’s father lodged a police complaint.
Meanwhile, Tamizhselvan went absconding. As the police launched a hunt for him, he surrendered before the village administrative officer of
Jameen Illampillai on Wednesday.
During interrogation, Tamizhselvan confessed to having battered the child with stones and banged him on the floor. After the child died, he buried the body in his farm. According to the Paramathivelur DSP, A.Sujatha, the accused Tamizhselvan had killed the child about a week ago.
