After a five-day-long search, the UP Police were able to bring out the truth behind the disappearance of a sexagenarian couple from Jaunpur. It turns out they were murdered by their son, who then used a saw to cut their bodies into pieces and dumped them into the Rivers Gomti and Sai.
A familial dispute is said to have led to the double murder by the accused, Ambesh. According to reports, he had married a woman from another faith and settled down in Kolkata during the Covid pandemic. The couple raised a family far from Uttar Pradesh before financial constraints forced the wife to send Ambesh back home to seek help from his parents. While his estranged parents, Babita (63) and Shyam Bahadur (65), let him stay with them, the relationship was hardly mended, and arguments became a regular affair in their house. It was in the aftermath of one such quarrel that the man did the unimaginable to his old parents, news reports quoted the UP Police as saying.
It was around three months back that Ambesh returned to his family in Jaunpur's Ahmedpur village, news reports said. On 8 December, an argument between the couple and their son escalated beyond the point of no return when Babita was hit on the head with an iron rod by her son. A terrified Shyam Bahadur tried to raise an alarm when he was also assaulted before being strangled to death using a rope.
The household had a saw which he used to saw the bodies into three parts each, India Today said in a report, so that he could use cement sacks to carry them for disposal. After cleaning bloodstains from the floors, Ambesh took the body parts of the victims in six cement sacks in a car to the water bodies for disposal. According to the report, one portion of Babita's body did not fit into the sack and was disposed of separately at the River Sai, while all the other sacks were thrown into the River Gomti.
Truth emerges
On 13 December, Ambesh's sibling Vandhana reportedly filed a police complaint as she could not reach her parents. It was not until 15 December that the police could zero in on the accused, who had fled towards Varanasi after throwing the sacks away. While he kept giving contradictory statements at first, Ambesh confessed later and the horrible crime came to light.
