Trilokpuri murder: accused were frustrated with victim’s sexual misconduct, say police
The Hindu
Anjan Das had another wife and children in Bihar, he was allegedly dependent on accused’s salary for his personal needs; mother has confessed to killing husband, said son chopped the body, say police
The man who was killed allegedly by his wife and stepson in east Delhi’s Trilokpuri had another wife and eight children in Bhagalpur, Bihar, the police said on Monday.
The victim, Anjan Das, did not earn much and was dependent on the salary of his wife, Poonam Devi, a nurse at a local hospital, for his personal needs. He also stole Ms. Poonam’s jewellery and sent it to his first wife in Bihar, the police said.
According to the police, Ms. Poonam and her son, Deepak, allegedly planned to murder Anjan after getting frustrated with his drinking habit and sexual misconduct with some relatives.
Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said in April this year Ms. Poonam came to know that Anjan allegedly molested and attempted to rape two relatives. On May 30, she and Mr. Deepak allegedly spiked the drink of the victim with sedatives and then stabbed him with a dagger in the neck, chest and abdomen, said the officers probing the case.
“The mother confessed that she and her son killed her husband but said that Deepak chopped the body with the same dagger,” a police officer said, adding that the weapon of the crime is yet to be recovered.
The police have recovered some body parts from a ground near the accused’s house in Trilokpuri and an open drain in New Ashok Nagar. The accused allegedly buried the victim’s head in the same ground, said the police.
Mr. Yadav said the victim was Poonam’s third husband. She was first married at the age of 13 to a man named Sukhdev Tiwari, who left for Delhi and never returned home. Poonam arrived in Delhi in 1997 in search of her husband. Here she met a man named Kalyan and got married to him. “Kalyan and Poonam had a son, Deepak, and two daughters, one of whom died when she was four years old,” the officer said.
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