In a heart-wrenching incident, a 32-year-old Delhi University (DU) graduate allegedly killed his three-day-old twin daughters because he wanted a son and buried the infants' bodies at a cremation ground near his house in outer Delhi's Sultanpuri area.
Answering queries about the horrific crime, the police on Wednesday said the perpetrator of the blood-curdling crime, Neeraj Solanki, was jobless and was living off the money he received as rent from his tenants. He had killed his daughters on June 3 and buried the bodies of the infants in the premises of a makeshift crematorium near his house in Pooth Kalan village. The case was registered by the mother of the daughters, the police said.
A senior police official said Solanki, who had got married in 2022, used to harass his wife and her family for dowry. Unable to bear her husband's daily torture, Solanki's pregnant wife went to her parents' home in Rohtak where she delivered the twin daughters in a private hospital.
However, when Solanki got to know that his wife had given birth to twin daughters, he visited the hospital and brought the infants to Delhi by lying to his wife that they had died from an illness, the police officer said, adding that he then killed and buried them near his house with the help of some people.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Amit Goel said, "Soon after the horrifying crime came to light, police personnel were deployed at the crematorium where the children were buried and permission was taken from the concerned Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) to exhume the bodies of the twins. On June 5, the corpses of the infants were exhumed and preserved at the mortuary in Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Mangolpuri. On June 6, post mortem of the corpses were performed and the bodies were handed over to slain kids' maternal uncle."
Initially, Solanki's father was detained, as the accused was evading arrest. His father told the police that Solanki was upset over the birth of daughters, the DCP said. The accused was changing his mobile handset, SIMs and hideouts frequently to dodge police and to evade his arrest.
At long last, police succeeded in catching up with Neeraj Solanki hiding in Haryana's Rohtak. During interrogation, he confessed to his crime, and subsequently, he was arrested under sections 302 (commission of murder) of the IPC, 304 (for culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 315 (Act done with the intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) .
