In a gruesome incident a 32-year old man killed his 6-month-old baby girl, injured five-year-old daughter and opened fire at his wife at Indargarh after she refused to provide money for buying liquor in the early morning hours on Friday.
locals informed the police after hearing the fire shots at around 7 in the morning.
In-charge of Indragarh police station Jagdish Sharma said the accused identified as Monu Jha shot his wife Jyoti (30) with a country-made pistol after she refused to give him money to buy liquor. later he attacked his five-year-old and six-month old daughters with a knife.
The 6-month-old died while undergoing treatment for her injuries at a hospital in Gwalior.
Sharma said that the father of the accused Gyan Singh, rushed into the room after he heard a gunshot only to found pool that the accused Monu had held his wife tried to strangulate her and also threatened his father not to intervene and after which the accused took a knife and attacked his two daughters, injuring them severely, and then escaped from the spot.
The injured were taken to a hospital in Gwalior where the six month old baby died during treatment.
Police arrested from Datia. The accused is habitual drinker and used to harass family over petty issues.
The source of the country made pistol would be investigated, said police.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the postmortem. The police have registered a case under section 302 of the IPC.