A woman in Gwalior got her eight-year-old son killed to get married to her paramour after selling off her husbands property. The son was seen as an obstacle to the plan.

The Gwalior police have arrested six persons including the mother who conspired with her paramour to get her son killed.

According to the police, eight-year-old Vinnet was reported missing by her mother from their Shivnagar residence under the Bahodpur police station on July 13. We searched for the boy in the area but there was no clue about his whereabouts.

"As part of our standard operating procedure, we went through the phone call records of the family and realised that the mother was in constant touch with Sandeep Jatav. She was jittery and could not explain why Jatav was in regular touch with her following which Jatav was summoned, police said.

According to the police, Jatav was tough to crack and he broke down only after he was confronted with the dead boys mother.

The mother too confessed of her crime after she was confronted with Jatavs statement and told the police that her son was acting as an obstacle between her and Jatav.

Sandeep Jatav on Monday took the police to the forest in the Sabalgarh area about 100 Km from Gwalior where he claimed he had dumped the body.

The police recovered the skeleton of boy only after conducting the search in the area throughout the day.

The recovered skeleton has been sent for forensic examination and the DNA of the boy would now be matched with his father who lives in Gwalior, police said.

The dead boys mother while confessing her crime told the police that her husband was mentally unstable and that she had a relationship with Sandeep Jatav for the past two years. The conspiracy to eliminate the eight-year-old was hatched about a month back after they realised that he had come to know about her relationship and was acting as a hurdle between them, she told the police.

Four other who helped the two dispose of the body in the Sabalgarh forest have also been arrested.

All the accused have been charged with kidnapping and murder.

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