A forty five-year-old man was on Saturday arrested for allegedly killing his 16-year-old daughter over the suspicion that she was in a relationship with a person from the identical locality in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam, police stated.
In line with the police, the accused, recognized as V Varaprasad, an ambulance driver and resident of Relli Veedhi space, posted a video on social media confessing to the crime that befell on Friday.
He then surrendered earlier than the police late on Friday night, stated a senior police officer.
“After questioning him, we formally arrested him on Saturday and booked a case of homicide beneath Part 302 of the Indian Penal Code,” Visakhapatnam town-I police inspector L Revathamma advised reporters.
The accused was a recurring drinker and his spouse left him 10 years in the past, unable to bear his harassment, stated the inspector. A few years in the past, his elder daughter, too, left the home and has been dwelling along with her boyfriend since.
Within the purported video, Varaprasad might he heard saying that he was taking excellent care of his daughter and hoped to make her a accountable citizen. “My older daughter had already run along with her lover. My youthful daughter wished to turn into a boxer and I’ve been getting her skilled,” he stated within the video. “However she, too, had been in love with a person.”
He additional stated that he had made repeated requests along with his youthful daughter, a Class 10 scholar, to attend until her schooling was accomplished, however she didn’t pay attention and continued to satisfy her boyfriend. “I didn’t groom her for someone else. I used to be upset along with her behaviour. Therefore, I killed her,” Varaprasad stated within the video, which additionally confirmed his daughter’s physique.
HT can’t independently confirm the veracity of the video.