Grieving father of the Indian toddler Gurshan Singh Channa has sought hard sentencing for his housemate Gursewak Dhillon, who admitted placing the unconscious three-year-old boy in the car boot and then dumping him on the roadside.
"I want law to punish him as he is responsible for my son's death," the father Harjit Singh Channa said.
Speaking to PTI, Harjit Channa said Gursewak had confessed in front of him that he was involved in putting the child in the boot of his car.
"I met Gursewak along with the police and he told me on my face that he had done it," a visibly upset and tired Harjit said.
"I have lost my child and I wont be able to get him back," he said, adding "I want the accused to serve hard sentence for what he has done to my family for no reason."
23-year-old Dhillon admitted that the boy was accidentally knocked unconscious on Thursday at the house in David Street, Lalor, where he had been staying with the toddler's family.
Dhillon said he got panicked and put the unconscious boy in the boot of a car, drove for about three hours and dumped the body 20 kilometres away in Oaklands Junction without checking if the three-year-old was alive.
"What he did was not a good thing to do," Harjit said.
"I had no frictions or any such dealings that could prompt him to do so," he said.
Harjit said when he asked Dhillon why he did this the accused responded that it was by mistake.
"But killing a three-year-old child cannot be a mistake," said grieving Harjit, who is now desperate to return to India and perform the last rites of his son along with his other family members.
"I want to go back home along with my son's body," he said who has not been informed on a confirmed date of when the body was going to be released.
There has been no dates decided on when the couple will return till now.
