A woman in India was arrested on Tuesday for beating her son to death with a cricket bat to hide her affair with their landlord, according to Indian media sources.
According to reports, Rakhi Balpande, 36, beat her partially-disabled teenage son, Chaitanya, to hide her relationship with her boyfriend Sumit More.
Rakhi, who is separated from her husband, Tarun Balpande, thrashed her son with help from More after she realised he knew of her affair and feared she would be exposed, according to MidDay.
While Rakhi told the doctors at the hospital that 13-year-old Chaitanya fell in the bathroom it was later revealed that he died of a blunt force to his chest and stomach.