A youth who’d tried to kill his stepmother and stepbrother and stepsister and his father out of a grudge over property here, last Tuesday, died this morning at the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital.
Babul Mistry (30), the accused, and his father Krishnapada Mistry (51) suffered severe burn injuries, while his step brother Badal (13) and step sister Sumitra (10) had minor wounds. Sandhya, Babul’s stepmother was charred to death on the spot that night. Krishnapada died at the same hospital yesterday.
Krishnapada of Udaykrishnapur village in Khandaghosh PS area of East Burdwan had married Sandhya after the death of Babul’s mother. The youth had deserted home after his father’s second marriage and was staying elsewhere at his kin’s place. The police said, a jilted Babul had planned to kill his father and the entire members of his father’s new family out of grudge over 1.5 bighas of land. “He had procured petroleum fuel that he’d sprayed surrounding the bedroom of his father last midnight when they were asleep and then locked the room from outside before setting it on fire,” said one investigating police officer today.