Woman burns live-in partner for lusting after her teen daughter in Faridabad

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, October 28

Unable to take her live-in partner’s objectionable behaviour towards her 13-year-old daughter, a Faridabad woman burnt him alive.

The accused, identified as Kiran, is a native of Punjab and worked in a private company. She first sedated the deceased and then took him to a deserted place in an auto before setting him on fire.

The police are currently questioning the woman and will take her on remand after producing her in a city court tomorrow.

According to the police, the deceased is identified as Pawan Kataria (38), resident of Bhatia Colony, Ballabhgarh. He was a software engineer and father of two daughters.

It was on October 16 when he went missing in suspicious circumstances and his brother lodged a missing report at City police station, Ballabhgarh.

Next day, a half-burnt body was found abandoned in Sector 75 but police mistook it to be a Nigerian’s body and kept it in mortuary. 

The brother of the deceased told police about the live-in relationship of Pawan.

When contacted, his live-in partner Kiran said Pawan came to the house in the morning but left after dropping his car and laptop.

The crime branch Sector 65 and police station team started joint investigation and finally nabbed Kiran who confessed that she had killed Pawan as he had bad intentions towards her daughter.

“I had hatched a plan some days ago and arranged petrol in a bottle when I discovered his lust for my teen daughter. On October 16 night, I gave him sleeping pills in dinner and soon he fainted. I called an auto and told the driver that he is my husband and rushed him to a hospital in Delhi. After two hours, I returned to Sector 75 and when auto driver went away, I poured petrol on him and set him ablaze and came home,” the woman told police in her confession.

The police said that the accused woman, mother of two daughters, was working with a private company in IMT, Faridabad. She had got this job after her husband died due to blood cancer in 2018. In 2019 she met Pawan and they fell for each other.

“We have nabbed the woman who confessed the same. She claims that the deceased had bad intentions towards her daughter so she took this step. We will take her on remand for questioning after being produced in court tomorrow,” said Sube Singh, spokesperson of Faridabad police.

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