THODUPUZHA: On the third day of my son’s death, she told me that she wanted to marry Arun Anand, said Biju’s father Babu of Kamaleswaram. Biju died of cardiac arrest on May 23 in 2018 at his wife’s house in Udumbannoor.

The body was brought to the capital city on that day itself. Arun Anand too reached the same day. He spoke to my daughter in law on that day and the next day. On the third day, my daughter-in-law told me that she wanted to marry Arun. Arun, native of Nanthencode is Babu’s nephew.

Arun had borrowed money from Biju. When Biju asked the money back, a fight broke out between the two. There was no connection between the two after that.

Babu did not have any health issues. He spoke to us on the previous day of his death. Biju, a mechanical engineer was running a workshop in Idukki. Babu said that he doesn’t know how Arun and his daughter-in-law came closer.

Meantime, the woman told police that she became close to Arun after her husband’s death.

The woman eloped with Arun along with her kids and shifted to Thodupuzha.

The woman’s elder son was assaulted brutally by Arun and is undergoing treatment at the Kolencherry Hospital.