GIRIDIH (JHARKHAND): A woman strangled her minor son for crying while she was talking to somebody on the phone. The shocking incident happened at Giridih in Jharkhand. The police arrested the woman identified as Afsana Khatoon. She is a mother of two children. The incident came to light following a complaint lodged by her father-in-law Rojan Ansari.

After quarreling with her husband Nizamuddin, she entered the room with her two-year-old son and closed the door. She got angry and strangled her son for crying non-stop when she was talking to somebody on the phone. The baby lost consciousness and died immediately.

She did not tell anyone about her son's death. When the husband came to the room to sleep at night, he found the child lying unconscious. The in-laws said that Afsana did not bother to say anything at first when asked what had happened. The baby was brought to the hospital but was dead by then.

The woman reiterated that she had not killed the baby. The woman told police that when she pushed the baby from the bed, it fell on the ground. The police said that nothing could be said about the incident now and a clarity will be obtained only after getting the post-mortem report. The couple got married six years ago. The couple has another four-year-old son.