JAIPUR: A day after a 30-year-old woman was arrested for smothering her three-year-old son, her husband claimed that his wife had threatened to kill their sons on several occasions.

“I am completely devastated. My son could not even get a proper cremation due to my wife. In order to afflict pain on me, she killed him,” said

, husband of

.

Navita was arrested on Saturday after she admitted to killing her son. Rajesh told TOI that he had gone to the police station for reconciliation with Navita on Thursday. “Even at the police station, she told me that she will turn my

life

into hell. I had always doubted that my children are not safe with her,” he said.

said Navita wanted to kill both of her sons and then jump off a building. After smothering her younger son, the elder one woke up and got scared. “The elder son spoke to her mother tenderly which prompted Navita to change her plans,” an officer said, adding that she had been planning to commit suicide after killing her children to make her husband feel miserable.

“We had got married in 2010, but in June she filed a case against me at a police station. Since that day, we have had been living separately,” Rajesh told TOI.

It was on Rajesh’s indication that Bhankrota police had recovered the child’s half-charred body from a funeral pyre at a crematorium on Friday afternoon and detained Navita.