Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Aug 20: Relating to the murder of a textiles merchant at Rajajinagar here on Sunday, August 20, the police have taken into custody the merchant's daughter's lover into custody and questioned the daughter.
Jayakumar Jain (43), owner of Dileep Apparels at Rajajinagar fifth block here, was murdered and then torched, the police have claimed. His 15-year-old daughter and her lover, identified as Praveen (18) from Rajajinagar have been arrested. Jain and his wife, Poojadevi, who saw their daughter roaming around with Praveen to shopping malls, having fun and getting engaged in prolonged telephonic conversations, had scolded and advised her to mend her ways, it is said. The parents, it is said, also snatched away the cellphone of their daughter. Angered by this, the girl planned to kill her father with the help of her lover, it is said.
Jayakumar Jain (left) and Praveen
Jayakumar Jain from Puducherry used to live in fifth block, Rajajinagar here, with wife Poojadevi, daughter, and a 12-year-old son. Poojadevi and her son had left on August 17 to take part in a family function at Puducherry, leaving Jayakumar and daughter behind.
Praveen, it is said, is a first year BCom degree course student. He frequented his girl friend's house. The daughter, who was angry over objections raised to her relationship by her parents, planned to eliminate her father by taking advantage of the absence of her mother and brother. During the police questioning, the girl initially said she had visited a relative's house for breakfast in the morning and on her return, saw her father having been engulfed in flames. But the police, who grew suspicious after noticing a burn injury on her forehead, questioned her and her lover and got to know the full story. Praveen is under arrest while the girl is undergoing treatment at the hospital, it is said.
Before leaving home to see off her mother and brother, the girl reportedly had offered milk mixed with sleeping pills to her father. When returning from the railway station, she called her friend to reach her home. As soon as he reached her house, both of them stabbed Jayakumar Jain, who was in slumber, indiscriminately. They then ragged his body to the toilet, changed their clothes and washed them in the washing machine. They also tried to wipe off the blood stains on walls and bed sheets. In the morning, they brought petrol from a petrol bunk in two bottles, sprinkled the same on the body of Jain and ignited fire. Legs of both the people suffered some burn injuries as their feet were soaked in petrol. Thereafter, the girl went to the terrace, and raised an alarm about fire tragedy. The neighbours then called the fire brigade. The firemen informed the police after dousing fire.
The two tried to blame electrical short circuit for the fire. Praveen had brought a knife from his house and the girl used the knife found in her house for attacking Jain. City (north) deputy police commissioner Shashikumar, said that the family of Praveen is respected and his parents are decent people. They were not aware about the deeds of their son. Praveen is now being questioned further, he added.