Kochi: A woman and her boyfriend were arrested for allegedly assaulting her 12-year-old son after he refused to sleep in another bedroom at Kaloor here, police said on Saturday.

According to police, the arrested are the 37-year-old mother and her boyfriend Siddharth Rajeev (24), a native of Vamanapuram, Thiruvananthapuram.

The woman, an employee of a central government firm who had separated from her husband, was living with her son in an apartment in Kaloor. Rajeev, who runs a YouTube channel, had recently befriended her and started staying at the apartment, police said.

The incident occurred on Thursday when the boy, who usually slept with his mother, was asked to move to another bedroom, which he refused. When the boy insisted on staying in the same room, Rajeev allegedly assaulted

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