
The son of an Indian murder victim has
confessed to stabbing his father's killer to death
and chopping his body into 12 pieces, one for
every year since his father was slain, media
reported Tuesday.
Alam Khan was aged 12 when he saw his father
being murdered by a family friend in 2003. He
had secretly planned his revenge ever since and
finally seized his chance last week when he
invited the killer over for a drink.
After getting Mohammad Rais drunk at his home
in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Khan knifed him to
death before using a hammer and hacksaw to
dismember the body, he told reporters on
Monday after his arrest.
He and an accomplice then packed the body
parts into plastic bags which they threw into a
river. When the bags washed up on the river's
banks, police were only able to identify Rais
from a surgery scar on his torso.
Khan was arrested after witnesses recounted
how Rais had last been seen visiting his home,
and made a full confession.
"I played some music at full volume and cut his
body into 12 pieces," Khan was quoted as
saying by the Times of India.
Khan had never told anyone about the identity of
his father's killer and had instead waited for 12
years to "realise his dream" of taking revenge.
He was "happy it was now done".
Police Superintendent Ram Suresh Yadav told
the newspaper Khan had confessed to his crime
with an "utter lack of remorse".
The murder weapons, including the hammer and
hacksaw, had been recovered from Khan's home
in the district of Moradabad, Yadav added.
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