A 34-year-old man was arrested for the murder of his two minor children on Saturday after an argument with his wife at the Bru resettlement camp in Tripura’s Dhalai district, police said.
The police identified the father as Lalchunuma Pru, a resident of Kananta Para in Ultachara, Dhalai District.
“He was arrested on Saturday after his 32-year-old wife, Runtarong Riang, filed a complaint,” a police officer said.
According to police officers, Lalchuanauma was drunk when he returned home, after which an argument broke out between the couple over their children not being dressed.
Lalchuanoma allegedly assaulted Riang, and when their 13-year-old daughter, Rishika Khakumti Riang, tried to intervene, he picked up a piece of wood lying in the room and hit Rishika and her four-year-old brother, Prishmaiha Mulsoy Riang, on the heads. The children bled to death, the complaint said.
On the basis of the complaint, Gandachera police registered a case against Lalchunuma under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Act, 2023.
More than 32,000 Bru migrants came to Tripura after fleeing ethnic clashes in Mizoram’s Mamit, Kulasib and Lunglei districts in 1997. More than two decades later, a four-way agreement was signed in 2020 between the Center and the governments of Tripura and Mizoram and the Bru migrants, allowing them to resettle permanently in Tripura.
