Wife's father, brother killed teacher: Cops

NEW DELHI: Two days after two persons were detained for the murder of a 41-year-old teacher in Pitampura area of northwest Delhi, the police finally arrested the duo who turned out to be the father-in-law and brother-in-law of the victim. The accused have been identified as Balaji Khushal Chapre (50) and Prajwal Balaji Chapre (18). The incident was first reported by TOI.
On October 13, M G Dikhate, who was a teacher at Okhla-based Govind Ballabh Pant Polytechnic Institute, was found stabbed to death inside his flat in Pitampura.Dikhate was staying with his wife and son at flat number 13 at Kasturba Residential Complex in Pitampura. The flat was allotted to him by the institute.
When the police reached the flat, they found the doors ajar and the body lying on the floor with multiple injuries. However, the household articles were intact and there were no ransacking. The circumstances inside the flat suggested that the entry was friendly,'' said DCP (northwest) N S Bundela.
The police questioned the colleagues and neighbours and it was learnt that Dikhate was married for the second time to a younger woman Meenal (25) from Nagpur. His first wife had passed away after a prolong illness.'' Dikhate and Meenal had a strained relationship and there were reports that Dikhate had developed relation with another woman,'' said a senior police officer.
Meanwhile, Meenal took up a job in Nagpur and started staying with her family there. "Dikhate had told his family and colleagues about Meenal as well as the threat to his life from her her family,'' Bundela added.
Both Balaji and Prajwal confessed to their role in the murder. Dikhate was a learned person while his wife was not that much educated this is the reason why Dikhate didn't like her and wanted divorce, said the police.
Two days before the murder, the accused had heated arguments with Dikhate over phone. On October 12, they came to Delhi and stayed in his house and killed him on the same night. After committing the murder, the accused kept the blood stained clothes in a polythene and left for Nagpur by train. They also took the mobile phone of the deceased. During journey they threw that polythene bag, blood-stained knife and mobile phone from the running train at Dholpur.
Later at their instance, the blood-stained clothes were recovered from Parvati Basin near Dholpur. The knife and mobile phone are yet found, said the police.
Balaji is a vendor and runs a PCO at Nagpur while his son Prajwal is a class XII student.