New Delhi: A local priest’s suspicions foiled a man’s attempt to cremate his father’s body after allegedly killing him in a fit of rage in West Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh Thursday.
The son, Rinku Yadav, 26, was arrested at the Paschim Puri crematorium in Delhi Thursday afternoon, where he had brought his father, Sanjiv Yadav, 60, for the last rites.
According to the police, the priest, Sanjay Chauhan, noticed cuts on the neck and forearm of the body while performing the last rites. When he asked Yadav about these, the latter allegedly gave unsatisfactory answers and tried to evade the questions. Chauhan then grew suspicious and alerted the police.
A police team reached the spot at around 2 pm and took Yadav into custody. A case under IPC sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence and giving false information) was registered against Yadav and the body was sent for a post-mortem, police said.
Manjeet Singh, SHO Punjabi Bagh, told ThePrint, “The accused killed his father in a fit of rage Thursday morning. He was fed up of his drinking problem and slit his throat with a blade and later brought his body to be cremated.”
According to the police, Yadav — a resident of Madipur, Punjabi Bagh in West Delhi — was earlier employed with the Civil Defence services but is currently unemployed. He took care of his siblings after his mother’s death in 2013, and was allegedly frustrated with his father for not paying attention to familial responsibilities. His father used to work as a driver and was involved in the construction business where he would drop materials, the police added.
Singh said Yadav was also fed up with his father’s allegedly violent behaviour. Yadav told the police that his father had once attacked his sister while drunk and would often create a ruckus on the streets, Singh added.
According to the police, neighbours corroborated this account about Sanjiv Yadav making a ruckus in public, and said that he would only visit the family once in every three or four days.
The police said that they had also recorded the statements of Yadav’s younger siblings, who were not present at the time of the incident.
(Edited by Richa Mishra)