Man who shot his father in sleep held
The Ghaziabad crime branch on Saturday arrested a man who allegedly shot dead his father in his sleep at their house in the upscale Raj Nagar neighbourhood in May.
The accused, Anuj Tyagi, who allegedly suffers from schizophrenia, is one of the five brothers, including UP cadre IPS Sanjeev Tyagi.
Anuj nicknamed Dabbu was arrested by the crime branch who trailed him for a month after he allegedly murdered his father, Ishwar Tyagi, 65, during the wee hours on May 11.
Anuj travelled over a dozen cities with ₹12,000 after leaving his Fortuner car and weapons in the bushes near Noida Sector 63 .
“I was not given fair treatment and the family members, including my brothers, beat me up. The family did not provide me proper education and I did not progress in life. Fed up with the ill-treatment, I decided to kill Ishwar Tyagi and bought weapons from my friends Rahul and Johnny (both brothers),” he told police.
“They called up a ‘tantric’ to improve my mental health but I was furious... They conspired against me,” he said.
Police said Anuj is suffering from acute schizophrenia, a fact admitted by his family. He had been undergoing treatment but stopped taking medicines and his condition worsened before he allegedly committed the murder.
“Apart from Anuj, two other accused, Rahul and Johnny, have been booked under IPC sections of criminal conspiracy... They are absconding,” said SC Belwal, inspector, crime branch.
After his arrest, Anuj said he studied only up to Class 11 while three of his brothers did well and completed their engineering from reputed institutions such as IIT. His fourth brother is an IPS officer posted in Auraiya.
Anuj said his family and brothers denied him money and property. However, his eldest brother Praveen, who runs a coaching academy in Mumbai, said he gifted Anuj a Mercedes and their father opened a rice mill worth ₹50 crore for him in Ghaziabad.