LUCKNOW Police investigation right into a lacking bike grievance by a villager unravelled a couple’s conspiracy in Sitapur to kill their 18-year-old daughter over her relationship with a youth, police stated on Wednesday.
The throat-slit bare physique of an unidentified woman was discovered close to a pond in Saholi village below Sandana police station limits on Saturday. Cops failed to confirm the deceased’s id for practically three days, however a grievance a couple of lacking motorbike by one Ram Autar of close by Pakarnarayanpur village on Tuesday gave them a breakthrough within the homicide case, which was solved inside a couple of hours with the arrest of the woman’s dad and mom.
ASP (Sitapur) NP Singh stated the police obtained suspicious after receiving data that one Pankaj Kumar, alongside together with his spouse, daughter and two sons, was lacking for 4 days after borrowing a bike from Ram Autar. He stated the complainant (Ram Autar) knowledgeable that Pankaj Kumar, a local of the identical village, had borrowed the bike to go to his in-laws’ place on Friday and had been lacking since then.
Probe confirmed the id of the deceased woman as Pankaj’s daughter, following which the police reached his in-laws’ home in Begurawa village close by and took Pankaj and his spouse into custody, after which the couple confessed to killing their daughter.
“The couple confessed that they had been fed up with their daughter, who had a relationship with a youth belonging to a distinct caste whereas residing in Delhi the place the household labored as home assist. The couple visited their native village in Sitapur per week in the past with a plan to get rid of their daughter, if she didn’t agree to finish this relationship,” the official stated.
“As per plan, Pankaj left his village telling those who he was going to go to his in-laws’ home on Friday. He strangulated his daughter with the assistance of his spouse after halting at a abandoned place close to Saholi village. The couple additionally slit the throat of the woman and fled after disposing of the physique there itself.
The couple’s two minor sons had been additionally current when the crime was executed,” stated OP Tiwari, in-charge of Sadana police station. He stated the accused eliminated the woman’s garments in order that her id couldn’t be ascertained.
He stated the axe and the headband used within the killing had been additionally recovered from the accused and so they had been booked below Indian Penal Code sections 302 for homicide, 120-B for prison conspiracy and 201 for concealing the physique.