PUNE: A 35-year-old woman software engineer allegedly throttled her five-year-old son in their flat and slashed his wrists, leaving him to die, before jumping to her death from the terrace of their three-storied building at Manikbaug on Sinhagad road early on Sunday, which incidentally happened to be her birthday.

A suicide note found in the flat, apparently written by the woman, Dipti More, stated that she was ending her life because her “expectations from life had not been fulfilled". It said that no one should be held responsible for her decision. The note also stated that she was killing her son, Arnav , because she did not want him to suffer after her death. It said she and her son should be cremated together at an electric crematorium and that no rituals should be performed after her death.