INDORE: A government schoolteacher has been arrested in Burhanpur for allegedly killing his 25-year-old son in a fit of rage over his wayward ways and throwing his body in a river. The victim’s mother and sister were arrested as well.
Police found the body of Ramkrishna in Ruprela river on January 5. His hands and legs had been tied with rope and a plastic carrybag, SP Rahul Kumar Lodha said. When police tried to identify the victim, they came across a missing person’s report filed by teacher Bhiman Singh of Dhulkot village on January 2.
Police registered a case of murder and went to Bhiman’s house to give them the news of his death. An alert cop noticed that the rope used by the family as a clothesline was of the same kind used to tie the victim.
Suspicious, police questioned the victim’s sister, who broke down and revealed how Ramkrishna died, said police.
Investigators found that the teacher was upset over his son’s bad habits, including gambling. Bhiman was particularly distressed that Ramkrishna didn’t mend his ways despite being engaged in December.
On January 2, the teacher caught his son speaking to another girl over the phone in the bathroom, although his wedding was scheduled in February. Furious, he pushed Ramkrishna against the wall. The youth slipped and fell on the bathroom floor, say police. According to the sister’s statement, their father began kicking him in the chest, killing him.
The youth’s mother and sister then tied him up and dumped the body in Ruprela river at night, say police. The next morning, Bhiman went to Nibola police station and filed a missing person’s complaint.
