JAIPUR: A 30-year-old woman was arrested for smothering her three-year-old son, hours before she texted her husband to prepare for agony of a lifetime.

Navita Meena admitted to police that she had planned to commit suicide by jumping off a high-rise after killing both of her sons as her marriage was falling apart even as the last round of reconciliation had failed on Thursday.

“Later in the night, she put a pillow on her younger son and murdered him. She then began making plans to kill herself by jumping off the building with her elder son. She woke him up and took him upstairs on the pretext of showing him chandamama (moon). But she got emotional and fumbled at the last moment and changed her plans,” said additional DCP (West) Bajrang Singh.

Navita returned to her room with her elder son still in her arms and turned pale when she found her younger son dead on the bed. On Friday morning, she quietly took her son’s body to a crematorium where locals spotted her husband Rajesh Meena. Bhankrota police took the child’s half-charred body into the custody and detained Navita following which she admitted to her crime.

“Both Navita and Rajesh have been living separately for the past several years ever since she had filed for divorce. On Thursday, the couple had a final counselling session in which she had hoped that Rajesh will apologize to her, but he didn’t. She walked out of the police station with her two sons and began to chalk the final plans,” he said, adding that police had recovered a suicide note in which she had blamed Rajesh for ruining her life.

She had sent a message on Rajesh’s WhatsApp number in which she asked to brace himself for an agony of a lifetime. She deleted the messagem but Rajesh had taken a screenshot. “Rajesh had suspected that his son was murdered because the kids had met him at the police station the same day,” Singh said.