BHOPAL: A seven-year-old boy was murdered in his sleep by his father in Madhya Pradsh’s Indore, because of pressure from his stepmother.
The incident happened in Indore’s Tejaji Nagar area on the intervening night of Sunday and middle, as the middle-aged man Shishupal Munde, allegedly asked his son Pratheek, a Class III student to sleep in his room, which had an air cooler.
The boy usually sleeps with his grandparents. The boy, excited about the cooler, told his grandparents he was going to his father’s room. That was the last they saw him alive.
According to the police, when his son fell asleep, Shishupal turned up the TV volume and strangled him. He allegedly tried to video call his wife, but she didn’t take it.
After killing his young son, Shishupal sent a video to his third wife Payal in MP’s Rajgarh district, to prove that he had killed Prateek, as repeatedly asked by her.
Acting in the matter, the Tejaji Nagar police have arrested the accused man Shishupal and his third wife Payal, (23) who gave birth to a child just three months back.
According to additional DCP (ADCP) JS Bhadauria, the prime accused Shishupal, who drove the car of a respected family in Indore, had married first in 2015 and had a son Prateek from that marriage. His first wife died in 2019, after which he married another woman, but the marriage broke within 15 days.
Two years back, Shishupal married for the third time, this time with Rajgarh district native Payal, who since getting married didn’t want to live with stepson Prateek.
Around 7-8 months back, she returned to her parent’s place and started pressurizing Shishupal regularly to eliminate Prateek if he wanted to live with her. Three months back, she gave birth to a child and since then started exerting more pressure on Shishupal to get rid of seven-year-old Prateek, if he wanted her to return to Indore with the three-month-old child.
The video clip of the murder was found on Shashipal Munde’s mobile phone, the police said.
