Man held in Hyderabad for killing son and dumping body in Musi river

Bandlaguda police arrested Mohd Akbar (37), a vegetable vendor, for smothering his three-year-old son Anaas, who had a heart condition, and dumping the body in the Musi river. Police teams are still searching for the child’s body

Hyderabad: The Bandlaguda police arrested a man for allegedly smothering his son, who was suffering from congenital heart disease, to death and dumping the body in the Musi river three days ago.

The arrested man, Mohd Akbar (37), a vegetable vendor, was married to Sana Begum. The couple, staying at Noorinagar, has two children, the younger one being Anaas, aged about three years.

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Anaas was suffering from congenital heart disease and was being treated at Niloufer Hospital. “Around 2 am on Saturday, Anaas woke up from sleep and was crying. Akbar got angry and smothered the child to death. He put the body in a bag, took it on his bike to the Musi river at Nayapul and threw it into the water. As the flow of water was strong, the bag was swept away,” said ACP Chandrayangutta, A Sudhakar.

Sana, an outsourcing worker at Niloufer Hospital, returned home in the morning and checked with her husband about the child. “Akbar told her that the child had gone missing. The family then approached the Bandlaguda police and made a complaint. The police formed special teams to trace the child. However, when they found that the child had not come out of the house in the night, they examined Akbar, who admitted to killing the boy and dumping the body in the Musi river,” said the ACP.

Akbar told the police that he was facing problems due to the boy and there were quarrels regarding his treatment in the family. Four teams of HYDRAA and SDRF are trying to trace and retrieve the body of the child from the Musi river.

Akbar was previously involved in the murder of a woman at Narsingi. He killed the woman when she allegedly resisted his sexual advances. He was arrested and remanded in that case, but later obtained bail from the court and came out.