A 45-year-old man was allegedly killed by his wife and son, who dismembered his body into 10 pieces in May this year, storing the parts inside their fridge for about two days and disposal in an open ground less than a kilometre away from their house in east Delhi’s Trilokpuri. The house where the incident occurred was on the first floor of the building in Trilokpuri and it was a one-room house.
The accused, who have been arrested, have been identified as Poonam Devi, 48, and Deepak, 25. The deceased has been identified as Anjan Das, 45, who was Poonam’s husband from her third marriage, while Deepak was Poonam’s son from her second marriage. Police said that Deepak used to live with his wife and a three-year-old son in Kalyanpuri.
Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said that the incident came to the fore when on June 5, they received a tip-off regarding decomposed human body parts lying scattered in polythene bags in an open ground in Trilokpuri. After a police team rushed to the Ram Leela ground in the area, they found plastic bags with human organs inside them. The Crime and Forensic Science Laboratory teams were called to the spot.
After the body was identified as an adult male, CCTV footage of areas near where the body was dumped was recovered and it was observed that on the intervening night of May 31 and June 1, a woman and a man had disposed off the plastic bags they were carrying at the Ram Leela ground.
Police eventually zeroed down on the accused when they received a tip-off that one Anjan Das had been missing for the last five to six months, and his family members had not reported it to police nor made any efforts to trace him. After further analysis, police arrested the mother-son duo, who on sustained interrogation purportedly confessed that they had both hatched a conspiracy to murder Das.
“The weapon of offence, a dagger knife, is yet to be recovered,” a source said.
The accused have been remanded to four days’ custody.
