The woman and her paramour felt that her son, Tharun (in pic), was an obstacle to their intimacy.VELLORE: Police on Tuesday arrested a 25-year old woman in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu and her paramour for murdering her four-year-old son. Kaviya and her paramour, Thiyagarajan of Ranipet, murdered her son on Thursday as they felt that he was an obstacle to their extramarital affair.
The Walajapet police on Tuesday exhumed the boy’s body which was buried on the Palar river bank on Friday night. After postmortem, the body was buried again.
Police said Kaviya got married to Ramachandran 30, a daily wage earner at Ranipet SIPCOT, in 2014.
The couple used to fight. In 2017, when their son, Tharun, was two years old, Kaviya estranged from Ramachandran and returned to her parents’ home at Pakkupettai.
Kaviya, who joined for BEd at a private teacher education college in Ranipet, developed an extramarital affair with cab driver Thiyagarajan, 30.
Though Kaviya had not obtained legal divorce from her first husband, she married Thiyagarajan in January 2019 after informing her family members. She started to live in Thiyagarajan’s house along with her son. Initially, they were living in his parents’ home. A week ago, they moved to a rented house at Belliyappa Nagar.
In their confessional statement, the couple said, "Since Tharun was an obstacle to our intimacy, we decided to murder him. We drowned him in a water-filled tub on Thursday morning."
"We covered his body in a polythene sack and continued with our daily routine. On Friday night, we carried his body to a burial ground on the Palar river bank and buried it there," they said.
Later, in an inebriated condition, Thiyagarajan told his friend about the murder of the boy. The friend informed Thenkadappathangal village administrative officer Adhiyaman, who in turn alerted the police.