Woman Kills Her Stepson By Throwing Him Into Well In Odisha's Rourkela

Sundargarh: In Odisha 's Sundargarh district, a 20-year-old woman allegedly killed her five-year-old stepson by throwing him into a well. A senior police confirmed the incident saying that the woman blindfolded the child and tied his hands before throwing him into the well. Shockingly, the woman also tied a heavy stone to the body of the child before throwing him into the well. 

The police official stated that the accused, who was arrested by the police, confessed that she was not happy as her husband loved that boy more than her own child. 

The incident occurred on October 11 in a village under Raghunathpalli police station near Rourkela town.

The arrested woman is the second wife of the boy’s father. The entire family - the first wife who is the mother of the boy, the second wife and their husband - live together.

On October 12, the boy's father filed a missing diary at the local police station.

During the investigation, the police found that the boy was last seen playing with her stepmother near the village well, said Upasana Padhi, Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Rourkela (zone-3).

The police, with the help of a fire service team, extracted water from the well and the body of the boy was found, she said.

"During interrogation, it was revealed that the stepmother killed the boy out of jealousy because her husband was more affectionate to the boy than her own child,” Padhi said.

The police arrested the accused Nauri Gudia who was remanded to judicial custody by a local court on Wednesday.