In a macabre incident, a father left his 13 month old son to die on the track after panicked and fled in a gruesome suicide attempt in Ahmedabad, on Monday night.
A man accused of killing his newborn son-only area of the city and escape.
The accused is said to have taken his son on Monday night for a walk, but went straight to the train overpass in the suicide of Sola. However, as the train approached, the father, apparently changed his mind about taking his own life – while caring little about the fate of the boy who stayed on the track and crashed into a train speed.
Police had initially presented a single case of accidental death which was later changed to murder on Tuesday after the revelation of the wife of the accused. The police said the man, identified as Mehul Patel, Umed Park Residents Only, came out eight pm with the child to inform his wife. Police also said he used to regularly take their children for a walk.
When Patel did not return that night, approached his wife Vyapti police Tuesday. They told him that his son was killed and her husband were on the run. The police told her that the mutilated body of a child was found on the railroad and was later identified as the son Vyapti, said.
“Patel did rail at about 20:30. He placed the child on the track and lay down next to him. After two minutes, approached a rail freight suddenly stood up and Patel and began to flee, “said VK Zala Sola police inspector.
Zala said there was a quarrel between husband and wife in a common national problem. In 2009, Mehul Vyapti and married a second time after the divorce of their first marriages. Police said that Vyapti alleged that Patel used to threaten that he would commit suicide with their child.
Police said a driver Mahmood Yunus Patel has been noted and the child, but could not save. The driver stopped the train and tried to get hold of Patel, but the latter managed to escape. Grandpa OM to identify it as the child’s body was sent to a post-mortem.

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