INDORE: A woman, who allegedly committed suicide after strangling her five-year-old son at her flat in the Silicon City residential township on the intervening night of August 28-29, has been booked by police for the boy's murder.

Rajendra Nagar police station in charge Kamlesh Sharma told TOI, "Kiran, 25, has been booked for the murder of her son Swastik." Police sources said enraged over prolonged altercations and tension with her husband Pramod Gautam, an executive working at a premier export house in Pithampur-Dhar, the woman had first stranfled her son Swastik and then ended life in her house.

A suicide note recovered from the spot blamed Pramod, husband of Kiran as responsible for the extreme step. He was arrested and booked for abetment of suicide under Section 306 of IPC.

Based on autopsy report of Swastik's body and subsequent police investigations, it was established that Kiran first strangulated him and then hanged herself after which the Rajendra Nagar police lodged a murder case against her on Tuesday.

