Summary:
MUMBAI: A 51-year-old HIV-positive man was recently acquitted of murdering his minor son in 2016 after his wife, the complainant in the case, turned hostile. The prosecution stated that on July 5, 2016, the son was crying so the accused took him out. The accused had been in jail from July 11, 2016. Police alleged that the accused killed the child after suspecting that he too was HIV positive like his wife, daughter and himself.The woman denied telling the cops earlier that her husband had called her up after disappearing with their son and said that he had killed him. The child was found drowned in a nullah along the railway tracks.Observing that the homicidal death of the child was not proved, the sessions court also did not find the alleged motive convincing..