The murderer of three-year-old Akash Shah, whose body was stuffed inside the flush tank of the Kushinagar Express train at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Kurla, has confessed to the police that he strangled the child to get back at his mother, the accused’s maternal aunt, as she would frequently taunt him, calling him a “jobless and useless man”.  The killer, Vikas Kumar Bisundayal Shah, 30, was arrested on August 25 at Bandra Kurla Complex by the Surat Crime Branch and Amroli police, who joined forces to trace his whereabouts with the help of face recognition cameras and mobile trackers.

During the interrogation, Vikas revealed that after losing his job in Dubai, he returned to India and was living at his maternal aunt’s house in Surat. He claimed that despite trying to find work, his aunt kept bringing up the fact that he was unemployed. Showing no remorse for his actions, he stated that, to take revenge for the constant taunts, he kidnapped and killed her son.

Vikas Shah, the accused. Pics/Special Arrangement