Police in Turalei town have detained a 62-year-old man accused of setting his older brother’s house on fire last evening at Bumgok village.
According to police preliminary investigation, Ring Malek Dut’s action cost his brother Kuoch a hut and a granary full of harvests.
Police attributed the motive to anger after his brother refused to give him his share of a bride price – one cow.
“But his brother, the father of the daughter denied him the support,” said Brig.-Gen. Marko Mawien, Twic County police director.
This is the second this year a man resorted to arson over a disagreement related to cow. Read here.
Arson is a criminal offense, according to the South Sudan Penal Code 2008. Section 247 of Chapter V states:
“Any person who by any negligent act causes fire or explosion likely to endanger human life or safety shall be guilty of an offense and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to a fine or both.