Kanpur , A 30-year-old daughter-in-law of a prominent medicine trader allegedly plotted his murder for imposing restrictions on her and her husband, and hired a former domestic help to execute the killing, a top police official said on Tuesday.
Vineet Manocha, 60, was stabbed to death inside his C-104 flat at Ratan Orbit apartment in Kalyanpur police station area of Kanpur on the night of September 5, while his son Subrat, 35, and daughter-in-law Shalu were away at a party. Commissioner of Police Raghubir Lal on Tuesday told PTI that Shalu allegedly paid former domestic help Vishal Gautam, 30, ₹ 6 lakh to kill her father-in-law.
Shalu allegedly also promised him a job after the murder, police said.
“The alleged motive was Manocha’s strict control over the couple’s finances and movements, besides CCTV cameras installed at the house to keep a watch on the family. The alleged conspiracy involved a duplicate key to the flat. Subrat was paid ₹ 35,000 as salary for working in his father’s business. Shalu was allegedly given only ₹ 10,000-12,000 for her expenses. DCP SM Qasim Abidi said that Shalu approached Gautam around 20 days before the murder and asked him to either kill Manocha or engineer his accident. A few days earlier, Shalu had given the original key to Gautam and ₹ 1,200 to get a duplicate one made.
When he refused, she allegedly suggested suffocating him with a pillow while he slept so that the death would appear to be from a heart attack, he added.
She was also unhappy with what she perceived as constant surveillance through the CCTV cameras,” Lal said. She later handed the duplicate key to Gautam and told him when the family would be away, Lal said.
