Parents, 2 others kill drunk man; held

Rajkot: Eight months after a 30-year-old man’s mutilated body was found in Sayla taluka of Surendranagar, the police on Monday evening arrested four of his family members including his parents, brother and a distant relative, for murder. The accused had disposed the body after chopping off the body parts.
The body of Patha Kotasana was found without head and limbs at Thoriyali village in Sayla taluka on January 27. Initially the body was not identified, but when the cops checked from among the missing persons, it was confirmed that it was Kotasana’s body.
Kotasana’s family members had lodged a missing person complaint with police a day before the body was found.
Recently, the local crime branch of Surendranagar police picked up the parents of the deceased, father Sagar Kotasana (58) and mother Madhu Kotasana (55); brother Thakarsinh Kotasana (28) and a distant relative of his Mavji Maruviya.
“When all four of them were interrogated separately, they broke down and confessed they had killed Kotasana,” said inspector Deepak Dhol of LCB.
The accused told police that on the night of January 25, Kotasana had come home drunk and thrashed his parents. In the heat of the moment, his parents and Thakarsinh retaliated and beat him to death. Later they chopped off his limbs and head using a knife and a hand grinder.
Police said that all body parts were packed in separate bags while his clothes were burnt in the house.
The body and limbs were disposed of near Thoriyali dam while the head was thrown away in an orchard 50 kilometres away at Choriyavi village in Thangadh taluka.
Dhol said that Maruviya helped the prime accused in disposing of the body parts.
Maruviya and Thakarsinh went on a bike with the body parts and disposed them of at different locations.