LAHORE: Police have arrested a suspect for killing his six-month-old son after having a quarrel with his wife in Lahore.
Police said the husband and wife, residents of Chowki Nadirabad area, had an altercation over a domestic issue. After the quarrel, the man went into his room and threw the child on floor and locked himself.
The woman said when she went inside the room she found her child lying on the floor and blood was gushing out of its head and it had conked out. The child succumbed to its injury and died on the way to the hospital, she said.
Lahore Police sources said they would fight over petty issues very often. During one fight, the suspect even hit his wife with a glass bottle because of which she had to get 21 stitches.
Police have lodged an FIR against the suspect under Section 302 (murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
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