LUDHIANA: A 25-year-old man who abducted and killed the 8-year-old son of his live-in partner for coming in the way of their relationship in Koomkalan area of Ludhiana, was arrested on Sunday morning. The boy's body was recovered from near Neelon Canal on Monday.

The accused, Kamalpreet Singh (25) of Barnala, had a live-in-relationship with Sarabjeet Kaur (28). The latter was married to a Ferozepur-based man nine years ago and the couple had two kids, Sukhdeep Singh (8) and Lovpreet Kaur (6). After her drug addict husband was sent to jail in a theft case, her inlaws disowned Sarabjeet and her children. She then began living in a rented accommodation at Mangarh village. Kamalpreet, her co-worker, moved in with her nine months back.

Additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP-I) Jasdev Singh Sidhu said the accused used to beat up the woman's children for impeding their relationship. Fed-up of his jealous rag es, on August 9, the woman shifted out with her kids which angered Kamalpreet. He started threatening her to come back to him or he would kill her children.

On August 18, the accused abducted her son from outside her house when she was at work, took him near Neelon canal where he slit the child's throat and dumped him in the canal.

Sidhu said the then accused rang up Sarabjeet and confessed that he had killed her son. On not finding her son, the woman lodged a police compliant.She still found it hard to believe that her partner had killed her son, and kept pleading with him to give him back.

On Sunday, when the accused asked Sarabjeet to meet him in Amritsar, she went there accompanied by a police team in civvies, and Kamalpreet was arrested.

The accused told the police that he just wanted Sarabjeet to come back to him.

