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NEW DELHI: Protesting the Rs.5-hike in petrol price, over 300 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers blocked traffic and held sit-in demonstrations in the capital Monday morning, throwing traffic movement out of gear. |
| Gujarat man kills son, held |
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| Tuesday, 19 October 2010 12:15 |
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SURAT: A man who killed his 10-year-old son in a fit of depression over mounting debt and then cooked up a story of his son's kidnap-cum-murder has been arrested in Gujarat's Surat city, police said Monday. According to police, Mukesh Markada (32) turned up at a city hospital Sunday with the body of his 10-year-old son, Yash, claiming that he had been killed by his kidnappers. Mukesh told police that Yash, who studied in Class 4, had been kidnapped a day earlier for ransom. He claimed the kidnappers demanded Rs.50 lakh. He said he established contact and paid them Rs.12 lakh but they delivered the boy to his car in a comatose condition. Police doubted his story and questioned him. On Monday, he admitted killing his son. According to police, Mukesh was under a debt of over Rs.50 lakh. In a fit of depression he decided to kill his son then commit suicide.
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