Patna: A man in Bihar killed his two-year-old son after his cries ‘disturbed’ his sleep on Sunday night, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place at Belabadan village in Purnia district, some 350km east of Patna.

Police have arrested the accused and sent him to jail.

Reports said Mangal Sharma was sleeping in his room with his son Adharsh Kumar, the youngest among his three children, on Sunday night when the child began crying.

Irritated by his cries, which he found disturbing, the man put his hands firmly around the neck of boy and strangled him.

After committing the crime, the man carried the body in his arms and then dumped it in the nearby rivulet, before going back to sleep.

“When I got up in the morning and inquired about my missing son, he [husband] said [the baby] was crying. I soon got suspicious and rushed out of my home looking for him. I found the body lying alongside the rivulet,” the victim’s mother Sulekha Devi told police.

Based on her statement, the police registered a case against her husband and arrested him from the home. The suspect was later sent to jail.

“We have arrested the accused and are in the process of filing the chare-sheet soon. The case will be speedily tried,” the local Purnia district superintendent of police Nishant Kumar Tiwari told journalists.

Such incidents are quite common in Bihar. Barely a couple of days back, a man in Bihar was hacked to death just after his bike hit a goat.

Before that, villagers in Bihar chopped off nose of woman after branding her a witch. The incident took place in November 2012.

Even more weird incident took place in 2006 when a 10-year-old dalit girl had her fingers chopped off for stealing a few spinach leaves from the field of an upper caste farmer.