Hyderabad: A 27-year-old man on Saturday set his wife and four-month-old baby boy on fire in Kondapur village and he was later arrested by the police.
According to police reports, the couple has been living separately for the past few months. On Saturday evening they had met at Ghatkesar and apparently had a fight. Following this, the woman consumed sleeping pills and also fed it to the baby.
The matter came to light this morning after some villagers of Kondapur found two charred bodies in a plot layout and alerted the police, they said. Preliminary inquiry revealed that the accused had married the woman in 2015 and the couple had a baby boy.
The accused took them to a vacant plot set them ablaze and their charred bodies were found yesterday morning by the villagers.