Kolkata: A 22-year-old woman allegedly killed her father in this city by setting him on fire. The woman took her father out for dinner and got him drunk before committing the crime, the police said Monday. The woman went out with her father for dinner to a restaurant Sunday night and got him drunk. Then they went to the Chadpal Ghat on Strand Road for a stroll, a senior police officer informed. The father, 56, fell asleep as they were sitting on a bench on the banks of the Hooghly river and talking. The woman then poured kerosene on him and allegedly set him on fire, police informed.
The entire incident was caught on CCTV and the woman confessed to the crime as well, police claimed. The woman is a resident of Christopher Road near Park Circus. She was arrested on a complaint lodged by her uncle.
“During interrogation, the woman claimed that after her mother died when she was a child, her father started physically assaulting her. He also used to torture her emotionally. However, it stopped after she got married. But, as her marriage broke off and she returned home, the torture started again,” the officer said. “We are verifying her claims,” he added.
When produced at a court, the woman was sent to police custody till March 29.