A six-year-old boy was allegedly killed by his mother and her paramour, who dumped the body in a sugarcane field at Ambad in Maharashtra's Jalna district, police said on Thursday.

The police have arrested the boy's mother Sheetal Vinod Ughde (21), a resident of Dawargaon village in Ambad tehsil, her lover Navnath Jagdhane (22) and Ganesh Rokde, both residents of Paithan in Aurangabad district, an official said.