Gorakhpur Man 'Kills' Father, 'Chops' Body Into Pieces To Dispose It Using Suitcase, Arrested

The Gorakhpur police officer informed that the accused identified as Santosh Gupta murdered his father because of a fallout over a property dispute in the family.

Image used for representational purpose only | The incident took place in Suraj Kund colony under Tiwaripur police station limits late on Saturday night.

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New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a man is accused of killing his 62-year-old father over a property dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur. According to the police, following the murder, the 30-year-old man allegedly chopped his father's body into pieces to fit it into a suitcase and dispose of it.

The incident took place in Suraj Kund colony under Tiwaripur police station limits late on Saturday night, news agency ANI reported. Police lodged a case on Sunday after Prashant Gupta, the brother of the accused, approached police with a complaint.

The deceased, the father of the accused, has been identified as Murli Dhar Gupta, while the accused has been identified as Santosh Kumar alias Prince

Santosh has been arrested, Superintendent of Police (city) Krishna Kumar Bishnoi said, as per ANI. The police officer informed that Santosh murdered his father because of a fallout over a property dispute in the family.

"Finding him alone at home, the accused attacked the victim with a hammer. The victim died on the spot. Then brought a suitcase from brother's room and kept the pieces of the body in suitcase and hid it in the street behind the house," SP Bishnoi said, as quoted by ANI.

"On the information of the accused's brother, the police recovered the body parts and sent them for postmortem," he added.

Further investigation into the matter is underway.

The case comes to the fore as in a recent case, a man was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district for allegedly killing a woman, chopping her body into several pieces, and burying the body parts at different locations, police said on Sunday, as per news agency PTI.

On March 8, the Soibugh police post received an application from Tanveer Ahmad Khan, a resident of the Soibugh area of the central Kashmir district, stating that his sister left for coaching classes on March 7, but did not return home.

During the course of the investigation, police rounded up several suspects, including Shabir Ahmad Wani, a resident of Mohandpora Budgam who confessed to his involvement.