Kerala live-in couple arrested for ‘killing their 2 newborns’ after man walks into police station with bag of bones

“He handed over the bag to police, saying these are the bones of the infants. He claimed that the bones were kept for performing rituals so that the souls of the babies get moksha. Suspecting something serious behind his talk under the influence of alcohol, police verified his claims that night itself. By morning, we realised that two children were killed,” Thrissur rural SP B Krishna Kumar said.

According to police, the accused couple became friends through social media in 2020, when Bavish was 20 and Aneesha 18. They had planned to get married, but the plans did not materialise.

Police claimed that the first baby was born in November 2021 and that the woman allegedly strangled it to death. The body was then buried near her house. Eight months later, she dug up the pit and handed over a few bones to Bavish, police said. The second child was born in August 2024, and the body was allegedly buried in the same manner, but at a different spot.

The SP said forensic surgeons have examined the bones and prima facie verified them as those of newborns. “However, a detailed examination will be held as part of the probe,” he said.

Police also said that the provocation for Bavish’s disclosure of the killings was his strained relationship with Aneesha, a lab technician. Bavish purportedly suspected that Aneesha was having an affair, and this had led to frequent quarrels between the two in recent months. Police said he feared that she was planning to get married to someone else, and went to the police station with the skeletal remains allegedly to take revenge.