In a shocking murder case from Delhi, a man allegedly killed his two-month-old pregnant wife and three daughters by slitting their throats at their family home in north Delhi’s Samaypur Badli area on Tuesday.
Neighbors and relatives reportedly found the bodies of the woman, 27-year-old Anita, and her three daughters, aged 3, 4 and 5, on Wednesday morning, while accused Munchon Kiwat was on the run.
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Police told HT that the bodies of the woman and her three children were found in a ground floor room in a pool of blood.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Out North) Hareshwar Swamy said: “The murders were revealed around 8 am when neighbors informed the police. A police team from Samaypur Badli police station rushed to the spot and found the bodies of the woman and the three children lying inside a room on the ground floor in a pool of blood.”
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During the investigation, police suspect that the motive behind the horrific murders may be the man’s preference for a son, police said. PTI I mentioned.
Cutting the larynx and cutting the trachea
Police described the crime scene as “extremely brutal” and said the injuries caused by a sharp weapon were so deep that his windpipe was severed.
While Anita, Kewat and their children lived in a one-room tenement on a street in Chandan Vihar, Kewat’s two elder brothers lived three streets away with their families on rent. Kewat worked as a vegetable seller in Azadpur Mandi.
It was Kewat’s 10-year-old nephew who saw the bodies on Wednesday morning when he wanted to go with him to Azadpur Mandi.
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“He was teasing us saying he wanted to go to the market, so we asked him to go with Munchon. At around 6:30 to 7 am, he went to their house,” said Sugni Devi, 36, Anita’s sister-in-law.
The boy described the scene as “bloody.” The boy said: “The main gate was closed from the outside, so I opened it and entered. The door to their room was open but the curtain was raised. I entered inside and found them unconscious and with blood surrounding them.”
What did the police say?
With the disappearance of the main suspect, Kiwat, police are investigating all possible angles of the case, including the suspicion of an extramarital affair. However, police said preliminary investigation suggests the grisly killings may have been caused by the couple having three daughters and no son.
The police were quoted as saying that Kiwat poisoned his wife and daughters before slaughtering them.
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An investigator told HT that a neighbor told them that the couple had a verbal argument on Tuesday night. “They said the couple had an argument, but they didn’t hear anything but loud noises, so we don’t know the reason for the argument,” the officer said. Investigators who viewed surveillance camera footage saw the accused running – around five in the morning – from the street near the house. “His phone was switched off in Jahangirpuri,” he said.
The police said that a PCR call was received at 8.07 am on Wednesday about the bodies dumped inside a room on the ground floor of the house.
Kewat is originally from Patna district in Bihar state, and has been living in the area with his wife and children for the past two years. Their relatives said that the couple did not usually quarrel. Kewat worked as a vegetable seller in Azadpur Mandi.
A case has been registered under Section 103 (1) (murder) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and multiple teams have been formed to track down Kewat and arrest him, police said.
With inputs from Himani Bhandari
