In a blood-curdling rerun of the Mehrauli murder case — where a man first killed and then cut his live-in partner into 35 pieces — a wife and son strangled to death a former Indian Navy personnel, sawed his body into five pieces and disposed them of in a nearby pond.
The incident took place at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas 25 km off Kolkata. The police have arrested the mother-son duo for the ghastly murder.
The victim has been identified as Ujjwal Chakrabarty, 55 and after his retirement, he was
working as a guard with a security agency. His wife Shyamali and their college-going son Joy allegedly killed him by strangulating him, police said.
Joy had reportedly asked his father for `3,000 for clearing his examination fees on Thursday night. The son, a student of carpentry at a polytechnic, then strangulated him.
“When his father refused to pay the money an altercation followed … the man allegedly pushed his son aside … this infuriated Joy who then strangled him to death,” a senior police officer of the district said.
“After killing Chakraborty, his wife and son dragged his body to the bathroom. The son then used a hacksaw from his carpentry class kit bag to cut his father’s body into six pieces. Afterwards, he dumped them in and around their neighbourhood,” the police officer said.
The son carried the body parts wrapped in plastic in at least six trips in his cycle and dumped them around 500 m away at Khas Mallick and Dehimedan Malla areas, he said.
“Chakraborty’s legs have been recovered from under a garbage dump, while his head and stomach were fished out of a pond in Dehimedan Malla,” he said.
Search is on for other parts of the body, including hands, the police officer said.
The incident took place on Thursday night. In a smart move reflective of a hardened criminal’s mind the boy then filed a “missing person’s” diary at the nearby police station and even cried before the media on Friday wondering who might have killed his father.
Shyamali and Joy were arrested on Sunday after the police found inconsistency in their versions. Shyamali later alleged, “regular torture” by the victim.
“My son and I have never lived in peace … he retired about 20 years ago and since then he had been beating us … he was a drunkard and would refuse to share the responsibility of the
family … he would beat me up regularly and when my son intervened he too was beaten up,” she said.