India, Oct. 24 -- Thanks to a 3-year-old's bravery, his father was arrested for assaulting and murdering his mother. Accusing his wife of adultery, the 40-year-old labourer assaulted his wife and tried to pass off her death as an accident, said the police.

According to the Wadala Truck Terminus police, the 27-year-old victim, Chandadevi Ramsinghar Yadav, a resident of Pratiksha Nagar, Sion was admitted to the Sion Hospital on October 19 where she soon succumbed to her injuries. Her husband, Ramsinghar Kalluram Yadav, told the hospital authorities that her injuries were the result of a bad fall.

When Wadala police heard of the case from the Sion hospital, initially they registered it as an accidental death and began an inquiry. "Our team...