A 35-year-old housewife from Badlapur was arrested for allegedly strangling her eight-year-old son to death, the police said on Friday. His sister informed the police about the incident after which the mother taken into police custody.

The mother, identified as Sheetal Maner, strangled her  son Arnav while he was asleep on early hours of Thursday morning. According to the police, she was staying at her sister’s house at the time of the incident. Maner, shocked by her act, then informed her sister, who was was at her in-laws' house.