A young man claiming to be in love with a married woman kidnapped and killed the woman’s five-year-old son in the suburbs of Sargodha.

A police report reveals that the suspects kept sending messages to the woman’s husband through an anonymous phone saying, “If you want the child back, divorce your wife,” even though he had murdered the child by then.

However, the police have arrested the suspect after about nine months.

Five-year-old Shahzeb’s father, Rehman Ali, worked as a labourer while the mother was allegedly romantically involved with the suspect Mukarram.

Police investigations reveal that the mother of the five-year-old had an extra-marital affair with Mukarram. It is claimed that she had left her husband and children several times to elope with Mukarram, as they wanted to marry each other. However, Mukrram’s parents were not ready to accept the woman’s condition that the young boy Shahzeb would also stay with them.

Mukarram then abducted the toddler, seeing him as an obstacle to the marriage, but strangled him afterwards and threw the body into a canal.

Mobile data investigations have confirmed that Mukarram turned out to be Shahzeb’s killer.

Shahzeb’s mother was completely unaware of her son’s murder.

The five-year-old was kidnapped in September last year, and the suspect was arrested after nine months of raids and investigation, which, according to the police, was a big success.