Woman plots to kill boyfriend with sister to protect her teen daughter

Ghaziabad: A woman from Tronica City who realised the man she was seeing for nine months was a sexual predator and wanted to protect her 13-year-old daughter from him plotted his murder along with her sister.On June 23, Kiran (32) and Kashish (21) knocked Zakir out with a wooden stick and dressed the crime scene to pass it off as suicide. They wrapped a towel around Zakir’s neck and tied him to the ceiling fan before raising an alarm before neighbours that he died by suicide.Kiran, police said, was in a live-in relationship with Zakir for the past nine months. Things turned testy when Zakir, a mason, expressed his desire to have sexual relations with Kiran’s 13-year-old daughter from her previous marriage.

Kiran repeatedly tried to stop him from going anywhere near her daughter, but he rebuffed her.She then decided to kill Zakir and brought her younger sister into a plan to stage the killing as suicide.Siddharth Gautam, ACP (Loni), said the case came under their scanner after Zakir’s brother, Sameer Khan, filed a written complaint on Monday, alleging that Kiran and Kashish had killed him at their rented accommodation.

“Kiran told the complainant that Zakir had died by suicide after hanging from the ceiling fan. She took him to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival. Later, police sent the body for autopsy,” he added.It was the autopsy report that strengthened suspicion among cops. The report suggested blunt injury marks on his body and the cause of death as strangulation.Kiran was called for questioning, but her account did not hold up.

“She kept changing her statement continuously. Moreover, what she said did not match the statement given by her younger sister. It was only after sustained questioning that she confessed to have killed Zakir along with her sister,” the ACP said.Kiran told police she had been raising three children even while seeing Zakir — a daughter (13) and two sons (9 and 11). “Two months ago, Zakir told Kiran that he wanted to have a sexual relationship with her daughter, which led to a fight between them.

He would also inappropriately touch her. Kiran had repeatedly tried to stop him, but to no avail,” Gautam said.Around 20 days ago, Kiran called her younger sister and told her about Zakir’s sexual advances towards her daughter. “Together, they hatched the murder plan and watched several crime scenes of movies on YouTube. They chose June 23 to commit the crime and escape to their village,” the ACP said.According to police, the sisters created a moment when the children would be away.“They booked a cab using Zakir’s phone to go out. When the cab arrived, they sent all the children outside and asked them to sit inside the car. While they were away, Kiran struck Zakir on the head with a stick. He slumped to the ground and fell unconscious. The two then tied a noose around his neck with a gamchha and pulled it tight, strangling him to death,” Gautam said.They attempted to erase every sign of murder and build a suicide narrative.

“They first hid the stick behind a water tank on the roof. And then, the sisters tied the towel to the fan and hung him from there. They also bent all three blades of the fan so that no one would suspect they had committed the murder,” Gautam said.The sisters then raised an alarm. When a tenant living below and neighbours rushed in, they created a scene and claimed Zakir had died by suicide. “To make it appear more authentic, they booked an auto-rickshaw and took him to Jagmohan Hospital, where his family members arrived. Kiran told them the same thing, that he had committed suicide,” the ACP said.