Pune: The Pune Rural police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old private company worker at Ranjangaon MIDC on the charge of beating his live-in partner’s three-year-old son to death.The murder took place in their rented room at Karegaon in Shirur, about 78km from Pune, on Wednesday. The boy’s mother (25) lodged a complaint with the Ranjangaon MIDC police.An officer from the Ranjangaon police said the woman and the accused are from Anuppur district in Madhya Pradesh. The woman is married and has two sons. Her husband and elder son stay in Madhya Pradesh, while she moved to Shirur with her younger son. She works in a private company at MIDC, where she came into contact with the accused, Devanshu Sahu. They later started living together.In her complaint, the woman stated that Sahu was forcing her to send her son back to her husband and marry him. He allegedly used to beat both her and her son. “The woman was not ready to marry Sahu because he was an alcoholic,” the officer said.He said that on Wednesday, Sahu told the woman that he would stay home and not go to work. In the evening, Sahu called the woman on her supervisor’s cellphone and told her that her son had died. When the woman rushed to the room, she found her son lying on the floor. Police said Sahu had punched the boy in the face, leading to his death. “Sahu had fled from the spot. We traced him and arrested him on the charge of murder,” the officer said.
