Rajkot: A strained relationship between two divorced persons ended in a brutal murder of the 30-year-old woman and her 12-year-old son with the boy’s body being recovered from a sewer in Bhavnagar on Thursday night.
Police first found the body of Shivam Joshi from the sewer on Sidsar-Vartej road and further investigation led them to the flat in which his mother Ankita was killed.
The crime was allegedly executed by Ankita’s paramour Hemal Shah in Jan Kalyan Apartment on Waghwadi Road where he lived. Shah and Ankita, who are both divorced, were in a relationship for the past one year and she had come to live with him permanently with her son on Thursday. Shah has an air-condition repair shop.