Udayan Das, the man who murdered and buried his live-in partner Aakanksha under a concrete slab, has been found to have murdered his parents in a similar way. Inspired by the TV show Living Dead, Das had killed his girlfriend Aakanksha after a fight in December last year. He had then buried her under a marble slab in his Bhopal home.
Around five years ago, Das killed his parents, too. He then buried them in their home in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Their remains were found on Sunday, according to Huffington Post.
Das was arrested last week, and brought to West Bengal on Monday, as Mumbai Mirror reported.
Sketchy Social Media Footprint
On social media, Das compulsively lied about his own whereabouts and work.
To police, he claimed he had met his live-in partner Aakanksha and gotten married to her in New York, but it was discovered he had never been there.
He had made up to six fake profiles on Facebook and the one he used the most was under the name Udayan Von Richthofen Mehra.
On it, the sketchy behaviour doesn’t stop.
He claims to be from San Diego and a student of NYU in the politics department. He also claims to have worked at the United Nations and currently is a Foreign Service Officer at the US Department of State.
He also seems to have created another dubious profile under the name of “Steve Von Richthofen Mehra”, which he referred to as “grandpa” on one of the posts, to make his profile activity seem more legitimate.
Das seems to have had a seemingly healthy relationship with his wife, before he killed her as they last posted something on each other’s walls on Christmas last year. However, even she displayed on her Facebook profile to show that she was living in Washington and worked at the UN.
Precise Planning
Police from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal combined their forces to zero in on Das and his diabolical murder plot.
Das sold his parents’ Raipur house a few years ago and its compound was dug up on Sunday, where their final remains were discovered from.
Apart from their remains, his mothers ornaments, fragments of clothes and his father’s belt were recovered.
According to local media, Das often put pressure on his parents for money and one day when his father went out for shopping, he strangled his mother. Once his father returned, he gave him a tea laced with sedatives and killed him in the same manner. He then borrowed digging equipment from a daily labourer for Rs 500 and dug their graves.
Surprisingly, no one suspected foul play as the couple did not interact much with their neighbours and were estranged from their other family members as well.
To anyone who asked, Das said his father died and his mother was in the US. He forged his mother’s death certificate when selling the house and obtaining the pension from a joint account.
(Source: Mumbai Mirror, Huffington Post)