A man killed his wife and three minor daughters and stuffed the
woman’s body in a freezer before hanging himself in Uttar Pradesh’s
Allahabad late on Monday evening, police said.
Police said
35-year-old Manoj Kushwaha, a resident of Peepalgaon area, was suffering
from depression because of a conflict with his family members.
Kushwaha
had killed his wife Shweta, 30, on Monday evening and shot his three
daughters Preeti, 8, Shivani, 6, and Shreya, 3. He later hung himself to
death.
The man’s body was found hanging from a ceiling fan while
the bodies of two daughters were found in suitcase and almirah and a
third in the room, news agency ANI reported.
“Prima facie, it
seems that the man killed his wife and daughters, and later committed
suicide. An investigation is underway,” Allahabad’s senior
superintendent of police Nitin Tiwari said.
Indian Newspaper reports from Lucknow;-
In a macabre incident, a family of five members was found dead inside a
room in Allahabad, which appears to be a case of the man killing his
wife and three daughters and then hanging himself.
When the police broke open the room on late Monday night they found the
man hanging from the ceiling tied to a sari. The body of the middle
daughter six-year old Shivani, with froth around her mouth, was lying on
the floor.
The body of the other two daughters – eight-year-old Srishti and
three-year-old Sonu were stuffed inside the almirah. The body of the
youngest was neatly packed in a suitcase kept inside the almirah.
When the refrigerator was opened the body of the wife Sunita came tumbling out.
Thirty five-year-old Manoj Kushwaha, resident of Pipalgaon in
Dhoomanganj area of Allahabad, was a well-to-do farmer who lived with
his family, including his father Gulabchand, brother Gopal,
sister-in-law Sadhna and his wife and three daughters.
According to his father, Gulabchand when he returned from the fields
last evening the television was playing full blast in Manoj’s room,
which was locked from inside.
When after repeated knocking the room did not open. A worried Gulabchand
called the village Pradahn Ramanand Pal, who summoned the police.
The police broke open the door late at night and inside was this ghastly
scene. The police removed all the five bodies, which have been sent for
post mortem.
According to SSP Allahabad prima facie it appears that Manoj killed his family and then committed suicide by hanging.
A trace of froth around the mouth of the middle daughter suggests that
the Manoj probably poisoned them before killing them most likely by
strangulation, claim police sources.
In her statement to the police, the only other person present in the
house at the time of the crime, Sadhna, said that the children were seen
around the house till noon after which the family retired to their
room, which was then locked from inside.
Hearing the loud television playing in the room Sadhna had knocked at
her brother-in-law’s door to find out the reason but there had been no
response.
In the evening, when her father-in-law and husband returned from the
field she told them about the room not opening and the loud television
playing.
