Father tortures rapist to death

• Jamil Gupta charged with murder after killing his daughter's alleged rapist
• Gupta, 36, invited Omkar Singh to dinner before strangling him
• Father then tied up Singh, 45, and burned his genitals using hot tongs
• Gupta handed himself into police but says he did not mean to kill Singh

New Delhi: A man has been charged with murder after he invited his 14-year-old daughter's alleged rapist to dinner before torturing him to death.

Jamil Gupta, 36, told police that he strangled Omkar Singh until he passed out before tying him up and burning his genitals with hot tongs.

Singh, 45, had allegedly raped and impregnated Gupta's daughter before boasting that he was too well-connected to local police to ever be prosecuted. The father invited Singh, his neighbour, to his house on Saturday and cooked him dinner before launching the attack.

After killing the man, he walked to a police station in the Khajuri Khas district of north-eastern Delhi and handed himself in, giving officers a detailed account of what he had done.

According to the Indian Express, the father told police: 'I burned his genitals once, he screamed. I did it again, he shuddered.

'When I did it the third time he did not move - he was dead. I did not want to kill him.'

Police confirmed they found the dead man lying in the courtyard outside the Gupta's house with bruising marks to his neck. In Gupta's statement, he told officers that two months earlier, when he had been working in his shop, Singh, a medicine supplier, had called round his house.

Singh found the 14-year-old girl home alone and allegedly raped her.

She told her father, who did not inform the police for fear that family and neighbours would blame her.

The girl has been examined by doctors who confirmed she was pregnant from a sexual assault.