| Man murders father over golden chain, dumps body in Canal | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 6: A 24-year-old man was arrested for beating his father to death for a gold chain and dumping his body in a canal here last month.
Addressing a press conference here today, the Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Farooq Qaiser said the body of Chak-Bana village resident Vijay Kumar, 58, was recovered from the canal at Raipur-Gujran in R S Pura on September 18.
"The body was wrapped in a bed sheet and has been tied with an electric cable from head to toe. The identity of the deceased was established on September 26", the SP Headquarters said, adding that it took eight days to solve the blind murder by the a special investigation team headed by ASP R S Pura, Sheema Nabi Qasba, with SHO Bishnah Inspector, Deepak Pathania and SHO R.S Pura Inspector Rajeshwar Singh as its members.
"Several suspected persons were rounded up and put to thorough questioning. Police was finally able to zero in on deceased's son Tarun Kumar. It was transpired in the investigation that the deceased did not have good relations with his son. On the night intervening September 12 and 13, the father-son duo had a fight at their residence over a gold chain belonging to Tarun which had been taken by his father", the Qaiser added.
He said, following the arguments, Tarun beat his father to death, and next day put his body in his car and dumped it in a canal at village Dharab-Satwari, said Qaisar. On Tarun's disclosures, the police also recovered the battery and the memory card of the mobile phone used by his father along with the vehicle used by him for disposing the body, the SP said. Tarun had also thrown his father's mobile phone along with its SIM card in the same canal. |
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