In Chinnatti village, Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu, India, a 5-month-old infant named Dhruvan died under suspicious circumstances on November 2, 2025. His mother, S. Bharathi, initially claimed that the baby became unresponsive after she fell asleep while breastfeeding. Believing it to be a tragic accident based on initial medical opinions, her husband, K. Suresh, declined a postmortem, and the child was buried. However, days later, Suresh discovered a secret, unlocked mobile phone vibrating under his wife's pillow. Upon searching the device, he uncovered WhatsApp text messages, voice notes, and a photograph of the deceased infant sent to Bharathi's secret female partner, Sumitra. The messages revealed that Sumitra had pressured Bharathi to eliminate the baby, viewing him as an obstacle to their relationship. Bharathi suffocated the infant by covering his mouth, nose, and ears, photographed his body as proof of devotion to Sumitra, and staged the death as an accident. Suresh recorded telephone conversations in which Bharathi confessed to the crime, then presented the evidence to the police. On November 8, 2025, authorities exhumed the infant's body for a formal postmortem and arrested both S. Bharathi and Sumitra.
Country: India
State/Province: Tamil Nadu, India
City/Region: Chinnatti, Krishnagiri District
Incident Type: Murder
Relationship Status: Extramarital relationship
Relationship Duration: 6 years (marriage) / 3 years (affair)
Incident Date: Nov. 2, 2025
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Crime Tak - India · Original language: Hindi
दूध पिलाती Maa ने दबाया बेटे का गला, Pati से बोली मुझे सहेली से Love,कांटा था बेटा इसलिए Murder किया
Extramarital Affair / Jealousy
The case illustrates extreme behavioral escalation driven by an extramarital attachment and co-offender manipulation. S. Bharathi maintained a secret romantic relationship with her neighbor, Sumitra, while remaining married to K. Suresh. Over three years, the extramarital dynamic escalated into emotional dependency, leading Sumitra to view Bharathi's newborn son as a rival for her affection and attention. Influenced by manipulative messages and coercion, Bharathi committed infant homicide, photographed the victim as proof of devotion, and staged the scene as a breastfeeding accident.
Initially, medical staff and family accepted the death as a rare breastfeeding accident, leading Suresh to decline a postmortem. The case turned entirely on independent investigative action taken by the victim's father after he accidentally found an un-password-protected secondary phone under his wife's mattress. Police utilized recorded telephone calls, exhumed the body on November 8, 2025, for forensic examination, and arrested both women. Both suspects remain in custody pending court proceedings.
The primary investigative obstacle was the initial misdiagnosis of the death as a natural or accidental event resulting from blocked airways during breastfeeding. Because no marks were immediately obvious and the father originally requested to forgo autopsy out of emotional distress, the incident was initially treated as an unnatural/accidental death without suspicion of foul play.
The reconstruction established that on November 2, 2025, Bharathi suffocated 5-month-old Dhruvan by blocking his mouth, nose, and ears. She photographed the deceased infant, sent the photo to Sumitra on WhatsApp, and then placed a distress call to her husband claiming the baby would not wake up. Following the burial, Suresh discovered the hidden phone, retrieved WhatsApp chats and voice notes, and recorded Bharathi confessing to the suffocating act and implicating Sumitra. Suresh presented these recordings to Krishnagiri police, enabling body exhumation and arrest.
Prior warning signs included hidden intimate contact, secret communication devices, physical chest tattoos referencing the partner, and an earlier incident where the husband discovered the two women intimate in his bedroom. Manipulative emotional blackmail and explicit voice messages urging the elimination of the child served as acute triggers. The extreme compliance of the mother under co-offender pressure highlights severe behavioral escalation within hidden extradyadic relationships.
Unexplained secondary communication devices and covert relationships pose significant behavioral risk indicators. Relying solely on verbal descriptions of infant death without postmortem examination can conceal intentional harm. Electronic forensic evidence, including saved voice notes and messaging logs, proved essential in disproving the staged accidental death story.
The earliest signals included Bharathi's covert meetings with her neighbor Sumitra when her husband was away working, a tattoo of Sumitra's name on her chest, and an occasion where her husband caught them intimate in the marital bedroom.
The critical clue was a vibrating secondary phone hidden under Bharathi's pillow, which contained unlocked WhatsApp conversations, voice notes urging the child's murder, and a photo of the dead infant sent to Sumitra.
Key evidence included WhatsApp chat logs, voice messages from Sumitra commanding Bharathi to eliminate the baby, audio recordings made by Suresh containing Bharathi's explicit confession, and the exhumed infant's forensic postmortem results.
Villagers in Chinnatti noted that Suresh had prayed extensively and fulfilled a Rs 1 lakh vow for a son. Hospital doctors initially stated that infant death during breastfeeding can rarely occur due to blocked airways, leading the family to believe it was an accident until the recorded telephone confession surfaced.
Follow-up investigations completely inverted the original perception of the case from a tragic breastfeeding accident into a premeditated infant homicide, leading to body exhumation and the arrest of both women.
The precise forensic autopsy findings following the November 8 exhumation and the court verdict remain pending as legal proceedings continue.