Ghaziabad, Nov. 12 -- A 26-year-old man was arrested in Ghaziabad on Thursday for allegedly strangling his nine-month-old son to death while the child's mother was away at work, police said.

The child's mother alleged on Tuesday that her husband had murdered the child while she was out at work between 7:30am and 10:30am on Monday, prompting police to exhume his body and order a post-mortem.

An FIR under Section 103(1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered after the autopsy report on Wednesday confirmed strangulation, an officer said.

The couple got married in 2022. The mother (24) worked as a cook while her husband was unemployed.

The mother told the police that when she returned from work, her husband had told ...