Shillong: In a shocking incident reported from Meghalaya, a man allegedly killed his ex-wife's three-week-old son from another man on Tuesday. The newborn was battered; his limbs broken and drowned in a bucket of water, police said.
A masked man barged into a house in the Mission Compound area in the state capital Shillong, at about 2.30 am, and assaulted the mother before snatching the baby from her, said the police.
The baby's grandmother woke up hearing cries in the room and found her daughter lying on the floor with blood on her face. "She was weak after a difficult delivery," said the grandmother.
Police said the man has been arrested. He has a criminal record and was out on bail as per police records.
He had already done a stint in jail last year in connection with a kidnapping case said the police.
