Mumbai: Mentally-ill woman decapitates toddler son, then kills self by jumping off running train – Times Now

Mumbai: In an appalling incident, a woman allegedly beheaded her one-year-old son and then ended her life by jumping from a moving train in Vashi area of Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai late Thursday.

Home guard sees woman jumping off running train 

As per reports, the now-deceased woman jumped from the moving train around 10:30 pm on Thursday. She was carrying a bag in which the decapitated body of her one-year-old son was found. “ A home guard in the ladies’ coach is witness to the incident of the woman jumping from the running train with the bag in which the infant’s beheaded body was found along the tracks on Vashi creek railway bridge on Thursday around 10:30 pm,” a report by The Times of India quoted a police officer as saying.

Subsequent inquiries revealed that the now-deceased woman was coming back from the house of her parents in Pune.  He husband, a civil engineer, claimed that she was not mentally stable. For the last five years, she was being treated for her mental condition.

Police are yet to ascertain the reason that pushed her to take the drastic step. A case of murder under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered, the officer said, adding that the investigation is underway.

Another incident

In another incident, A 19-year-old tribal woman allegedly killed herself by consuming poison after a domestic dispute. The incident happened near a brick kiln at Vasargaon in Ambernath township of Thane district on Friday. 

According to the police, the now-deceased woman, a native of Wada taluka in Palghar, got married in 2019. She, along with her husband and parents later shifted to the brick kiln at Vasargaon for work. She asked her husband to return to their native place, but he told her to wait for some time. The couple frequently quarrelled over this issue. Police believe that this might have pushed her to take the extreme step on Friday.