Father who abandoned his kids arrested

Father of two minor girls, who were found abandon-ed in Samaypur Badli, was arrested and charged with murder of his two-and-a-half-year-old son on Saturday.

The accused, 36-year-old Bunty Gupta, was absconding since August 17 after abandoning his two daughters, aged 3 and 8 years, who were found in a dark, closed room with maggots infesting their bodies.

The police initially believed that Gupta’s wife Jyoti had left him with their son, but his arrest led the cops to discover that he had murdered his son. The police is looking for Jyoti, who allegedly left Gupta for another man.

In a story that reeks of extreme parental apathy, vagaries of alcoholism, joblessness and poverty, Gupta not only abandoned his daughters to die of neglect, but also killed his son by flinging him into the Munak Canal on August 18. “Gupta left his two minor daughters in the house and took his son with him on August 18. He threw the child in the canal. The body of the child was recovered on the same day, but nobody came forward to claim his body. We had even gone to Sonepat to find the identity of the child, but didn’t get any clue,” said DCP (outer) Vikramjeet Singh.

The police was on the lookout for Gupta and received a tip-off that he had been seen roaming in Samaypur Badli area by the locals late on Friday night.

He was later arrested by the police near Nepali Colony where he used to stay with his family at around 1 am on Saturday.

Gupta told the police that his wife had left him a few months ago, taking their son with her. Later, she returned and handed over their son to him, a senior police officer said. “He said that he didn’t have money to feed his children. He wasn’t in a position to feed them or get them adequate treatment for their infected wounds,” said the officer.

Meanwhile, his two daughters are recovering well at the Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital.