Inspired By Saddam Hussein, Delhi Realtor Uses Thallium To Eliminate Wife & In-Laws

Police on Tuesday night arrested a real-estate businessman after his father-in-law's complaint against him led to revelation of the bizarre murder plot.

Representative Photo: Getty Images

New Delhi: A 37-year-old businessman seeking inspiration from former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has landed him in jail. The entrepreneur used Hussein's methods to kill his wife and in-laws.

Intelligence agencies during the tenure of Saddam Hussein were using thallium to eliminate political opponents. The Delhi man has been arrested for using the toxin to target his wife and in-laws.

Police on Tuesday night arrested a real-estate businessman named Varun Arora for killing his mother-in-law while his wife is in a coma since February, Indian Express reported.

His sister-in-law also died during the same time period in February.

According to the report, the act was exposed when 62-year-old Devendra Mohan Sharma who is a manufacturer of homeopathy medicines, approached police on March 21.

He reported that his wife Anita Sharma had died at Ganga Ram hospital and that he suspected his son-in-law Arora of murdering her.

The father-in-law had reported that Varun Arora cooked fish laced with thallium and served it to his family members back in January. Varun didn’t eat it himself neither did he feed it to his twin children.

According to sources, acting on this lead, police had the post-mortem and a forensic examination of Devendra Sharma, his wife and daughter – tests for the three shockingly reported elevated levels of thallium in blood.

An FIR was lodged against Varun Arora under IPC Section 302 (murder) at Inder Puri police station. When he did not confess to anything during the questioning. Police then conducted a raid on his residence on Tuesday and recovered his laptop.

Going through the device revealed web pages related to thallium in his browsing history and many more on Saddam Hussein employing the toxin to eliminate his rivals.

 It was revealed that Arora had ordered thallium through an online pharmacist, claiming that he and his father-in-law were making a homeopathy medicine for coronavirus.

 Later Arora confessed that he did all this to take revenge against his wife and in-laws over a matter that took place six years ago.

His father had died soon after his wife got pregnant. He began to believe the child would be his father’s reincarnation. But then the fetus had to be aborted on the doctor’s advice after some complications surfaced. While Varun was against abortion, his wife and her family members went ahead.

Arora and his wife later had two children through IVF and he said her family members taunted him. He then decided to take revenge.