A 39-year-old woman from Mumbai was arrested for allegedly killing her neighbours four-year-old son over an old dispute, the police said today.
The Accused Identified as Madhu Ghadhe, called the boy to her home in a chawl(ghetto) at Santoshi Mata Nagar in suburban Andheri late at night on Monday and strangled him with a pair of leggings,a police official said.
She then put him down in a water filled bucket in her bathroom.When the boy's mother couldn't find him she went to search all houses of her neighbour but Madhu Gadhe did not allow her to enter.They Neighbours somehow found a way in and found the body of the boy in her bathroom.
Gadhe was arrested on Tuesday and a case was registered against her under Indian Penal Code Section 302 (murder), Sahar police station's senior inspector Shashikant Mane said.
The accused and the child's family resided in the same locality and they often used to fight over petty issues, he said.
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