Woman held for killing paralysed father  

Sangareddy: A 73-year-old paralysed man was strangulated to death by her daughter who tried to pass off the murder as natural death in Rustumpet village here, police said.

The crime took place on Friday evening and the accused, Shahnaz, has been arrested for the murder of Mohd Jahangir, police said on Sunday. According to police, Shahnaz strangled her father to death as she was fed up of looking after him. Jahangir had recently suffered a severe attack of paralysis, Circle Inspector of Sangareddy rural police station, Narendar, said said.

Since there was nobody to look after him, his four daughters had decided to take care of him on a rotation basis, one month each daughter, he said. According to the officer, this month it was the turn of Shahnaz, his youngest daughter. However, since she was frustrated with her father’s health and fed up of looking after him, she planned to eliminate him.

Shahnaz, who is married, stays in the Rustumpet village with her family. On Friday evening Shahnaz killed her father by strangulating him with a saree and later stepped out of the house, informing her neighbours that she is going to a nearby town Sadasivpet for some work and will return next day. She asked them to take care of her father, if he called them, Narendar said.

The next day, when she returned home, she told the neighbours that her father died a natural death. However, police got suspicious and started interrogating her after they detected strangulation marks on the victim’s neck. During the questioning, the accused admitted that she had killed her father, following which she was arrested.

PTI