Mysterious death of a woman and her child

Railway police have discovered bodies of a woman and her eight year old son in mysterious conditions on the railway track near Gandhi Nagar bridge in Belagavi city on Wednesday.

The deceased woman has been identified as Renuka Yallappa Gutaguddi and and her son as Laxman, both resident of Maruti Nagar in Belagavi. Renuka, a native of Karaguppi village in Hukkeri taluk was married to Yallappa -a vegetable vendor who was residing in Belagavi. The couple was blessed with four children including a son and the eldest daughter died of a snake bite. Laxman was their youngest son. Renuka's husband has gone absconding from Wednesday morning. Police initially suspected that the woman had committed suicide along with her child, but the relatives of the deceased alleged that Yallappa had murdered them, as the kids head was found severed. "After murdering the man had later disposed the bodies on the railway track which passes just adjacent to the house where they were residing, to depict it as suicide" a relative alleged. Railway police have registered a case and are awaiting for the postmortem report.