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The police in Karnataka’s Ramnagara district have arrested a woman and her boyfriend for allegedly murdering two of her children earlier this month. According to the police, the arrested have been identified as Sweety, 25, and her partner Gregory Francis, 30, residents of Ramnagara district, who allegedly killed the woman’s children Kabila, 2, and Kabilan, 11 months.
The police said Sweety met Francis at a park on Bengaluru’s Tannery Road two months ago, and they began an affair. Sweety, who frequently visited Ramnagara with Francis, was married to Shivakumar, a Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) worker, and had two children with him, added the police.
On September 27, Sweety rented a house in Ijooru with Francis. Kabila was allegedly murdered on October 1, and Kabilan on October 7, said the police. “Sweety beat the children on their backs leading to asphyxiation,” said a police officer.
While they cremated Kabila without raising suspicion by claiming the child had died of illness, concerns arose during Kabilan’s cremation. The short interval between the deaths of the two children raised suspicions, and the cremator filmed the second cremation and reported it to the police, said the officer.
Meanwhile, other sources told the police about the children’s deaths, leading to the arrests of Francis and Sweety. When the police questioned them, both suspects reportedly confessed to the murders.
An investigating officer said their motive appeared to be their desire to continue their affair unencumbered as they thought the children to be obstacles.
Ijoor police have registered a murder case and are probing the issue.
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