Bhopal man who killed girlfriend murdered parents for forcing him to study maths

A Bhopal resident, who was arrested earlier this month for murdering his live-in partner and hiding her body in a marble platform built at his house, has confessed to killing his parents a few years ago because they “were forcing him to study mathematics”.

Though 32-year-old Udayan Das had confessed to his role in their killing a few days ago, police have disclosed the circumstances surrounding the incident only now. Their bodies were exhumed from a house in Raipur on Monday, following which Das was



interrogated for nearly two hours.

Police said mathematics, a subject that the youth hated, was one of the main reasons behind his parents’ murder.

“Udayan told us that his parents, particularly his mother, used to force him to study mathematics. He hated his parents because of this. Though he wanted to pursue a career in social sciences and the arts, his parents wouldn’t let him,” said Raipur additional superintendent of police Vijay Agarwal.