Jamshedpur: Lifer for father who burnt son to death

Jamshedpur, June 28: The Jamshedpur district court sentenced Rafiq Ansari, who killed his son by sprinkling kerosene oil, to life imprisonment.

Incidentally, in the case Rahman Ansari, a resident of Beldih village under Bistupur police station area of Jamshedpur, was burnt to death by his father Rafiq Ansari after sprinkling petrol in his sleep,

The sentence was given by district Judge Anil Kumar Mishra – Forest Court.

The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the accused. In case of non-payment of fine, recovery will be made from the property of accused Rafiq. A total of eight people have testified before the court in this case.

The incident took place on March 5, 2021 at 8.15 am when Rahim Ansari, brother of the deceased Rehman Ansari, had told the Bistupur police that he had slept in his room on the day of the incident.

Suddenly there was the sound of brother Rahman’s cry and he ran towards brother Rehman’s room with brother’s wife Neha and sister Shabnam and saw that father was standing near the door. Tried to run after seeing, the door of the room was locked from outside. When he opened the door and went inside, he found that brother Rehman was burning badly.  He tried to extinguish the fire with water after taking the brother to the bathroom. But the fire did not extinguish, people around came, somehow extinguished the fire and took TMH for treatment.

During interrogation on the way, Rehman had told that father Rafiq Ansari sprinkled petrol on him while he was sleeping and set him on fire and closed the door from outside. Brother Rahman was treated for 5-6 days in TMH, Rahman died during treatment on 11th March.

The reason for the incident was that the father used to oppose Rafiq’s illegal relationship with other women, he used to beat and beat the mother at home due to protest. Rafiq had an evil eye on his daughters-in-law as well.