60-yr-old killed in family dispute

Property dispute had led to the murder of 60-year-old Sahaspur resident Fakira on December 11, 2013. 

Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana disclosed this while interacting with mediapersons on Friday. He claimed that with the arrest of the accused Wazir Khan, who is the younger son of the deceased, this murder case has been solved. In the investigation, the accused disclosed that he along with his elder brother and bother’s wife had planned to murder his father Fakira after he refused to divide property between the two brothers and planned to donate the property to his married daughter.

Khurana said that the murder of the 60 year old person with a sharp weapon was reported in the Sahaspur police station on December 12. Following this, a case under section 302 of IPC was  registered against unidentified persons. To solve this murder case, several police teams including Special Operation Group (SOG), Homicide Investigation Cell were deployed for the investigation. Investigation prima facie revealed that property dispute might have led to murder of the old man and family members might have been involved in this murder case. 

Since the occurrence of this murder case, family members had not been cooperating with the police team. Following several rounds of interrogation of Wazir Khan by the police teams, he finally admitted his offence and said that he had murdered his father with a sharp weapons because his father had wished to donate his property to his daughter. A day before the incident, he along with his brother and brother’s wife had planned to murder his father. On December late night, he alone murdered his father with a sharp weapon.