Drunk man sets his wife, two sons afire after tiff

KANPUR: A 38-year-old man in an inebriated state allegedly set three people, including his wife and two minor kids, on fire in the Phaphoond area in Auraiya district on Thursday night.
The suspect’s wife, 30-year old Suman, sustained serious burns, their four-year-old son Gaurav was declared dead by the doctors at the Community Health Centre and his one-year-old son Chhotu is battlingfor life at Saifai medical university in Etawah.
Suman, belonging to Kanpur Dehat’s Rura area lived with her husband, Ranjit of Fakkadpur whom she had married about five years ago. According to police, Ranjit set Suman and their children Gaurav and
Chhotu on fire after sprinkling kerosene on them and fled.Ranjit, who was absconding, has been booked for murder, the police said. Village sources said Ranjit used to harass Suman.
“On late-night hours Thursday, Ranjit returned home in an inebriated state and indulged into a fight with Suman who protested over his drinking habit. “He first attacked her and later poured kerosene oil on them, lit a match stick and threw it on them. He fled the spot immediately after locking them from outside,” said station house officer (SHO) Phaphoond Akhilesh Jaiswal.
His neighbours, after hearing the screams of the victims, broke open the doors and doused the flames before calling the police. The younger kid of the couple Chhotu is being treated at Saifai medical university in Etawah. The police later shifted the bodies of Suman and her son Gaurav to the mortuary for the postmortem examination.
Suman’s father has demanded stern action against his son-in-law.