Father of Budaun minors attempts self immolation

Father of the two kids in Budaun, who were killed by a local barber last week, tried to immolate himself on Sunday and even set a few motorbikes on fire, upset over police's failure to find out the motive of the killing, so far.

Vinod Kumar, however, was stopped by the police from harming himself. SSP Alok Priyadarshi said Kumar was missing his children on the occasion of Holi and set his bike on fire out of anger, PTI reported. However, the family is disappointed that even six days later, there has been no breakthrough about the motive. Kumar's two sons, aged 6 and 13, were killed on Tuesday by a local barber and was known to the family. While the accused Shahid was killed in "retaliatory firing", his brother, Javed, present during the incident, surrendered to the police on Thursday. Javed has pleaded that he had no role to play in the murder and also did not have any clue of his brother's act. He has further told the police that Sajid did not have a sound mental health since childhood and would often resort to acts of aggression, and was being treated for the same. Sajid had also been upset lately over his wife's multiple miscarriages, as per Javed.