Madhya Pradesh native Alok Gautam aged 20 years strangled his 10-year old sister to death and later committed suicide by slitting his throat at his suite at a hotel at Rajpur Road on Wednesday evening. Investigating the case, the police suspect that the 21-year old Alok may have been under mental stress or suffering from psychiatric issues. On December 20, he had also attacked his father Mahendra Gautam who has been staying in another hotel also on Rajpur Road for about a month now.
Mahendra told the Police that Alok’s mother had died due to cancer about four months ago and since then the lad had been suffering from psychiatric issues.
It should be mentioned here that on Wednesday, the police were informed by a hotel employee about two bodies- that of a male and a girl were lying in the room. The girls body was found lying near the bathroom while the male’s body had been lying in pool of blood when police arrived at the scene. Police officers including the additional director general of police (law and order) Ram Singh Meena and Dehradun senior superintendent of police Sweety Aggarwal among others reached the hotel. After reaching the hotel, the polie found two bodies and sent them for post mortem examination.
The deceased Alok and his little sister Anamika Gautam were residents of Satna in Madhya Pradesh and were natives of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh. The siblings had secured a room in Hotel Ajanta at around 11 am on Wednesday. Both had submitted their identity cards and introduced themselves as brother and sister before the hotel official. They had paid hotel room charge of Rs 3,973 through a bank debit card.
SSP Sweety Aggarwal said that police recovered a mobile phone from the hotel room and through this mobile phone, the investigating team found that Alok’s father Mahendra Gautam was staying at Madhuban hotel also along the Rajpur Road. Mahendra told the police that he along with his son Alok and daughter Anamika had been living in the hotel since November 28. Mahendra said that his son Alok was selected in Air force, Dehradun and to see him off to his joining, all three had come to Dehradun on November 27 by train from Allahabad. According to Mahendra, to pay hotel charge, his son Alok and daughter Anamika had gone to bank for withdrawing money since at 11 am on Wednesday and had not returned to the hotel. Alok had paid the Madhuvan hotel charge using his mother’s debit card. Police contacted Air Force Station, Dehradun to find out whether a person named Alok Gautam had joined on November 28 but Air force official denied this. Investigation also revealed that Alok had requested his relative Rohit to give him Rs 1.5 lakh to pay hotel charges. Hotel CCTV footage revealed that no one, except Alok and Anamika had entered the room booked at Ajanta hotel throughout the day on Wednesday till the bodies were later discovered.