Four members of the same family were found dead under mysterious circumstances in southwest Delhi’s Kakrola village area on Monday morning. Ravinder Kanojia (35) was found hanging from the ventilator on the first floor, while the bodies of his wife Chanda Kanojia and two daughters Nandini (6) and Yashika (8), were in bed on the ground floor. It is suspected that Ravinder, who ran a dry cleaner’s for the last two decades, first bludgeoned his wife and two daughters with an iron rod and then hanged himself.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that Ravinder had a strained relationship with his spouse. It was once such bitter fight that led to the gruesome killing of Chanda and their two minor daughters. Ravinder who could not bear the enormity of crime that he had committed in a fit of rage, then ended his life by hanging himself. liquor bottles have also been seized from the first floor of the house. local police have registered a case of murder and suicide and are investigating.
According to police sources, the incident came to light on Sunday morning when the third daughter of Ravinder, Bhavna (3), reached the residence and despite repeated knocks got no response. She had gone to her grandmother’s residence and was saved from the murderous rage of her father. She rushed back to inform her grandmother, who reached the spot along with her sons. The elder son, Kishor, jumped off the terrace of an adjacent building and saw his brother Ravinder hanging. Police officials have found a blood-stained iron rod that was reportedly used by Ravinder to murder his wife and two daughters. A district crime team was summoned to the spot and the crime scene was combed by forensics, a police official added.
“Everything was normal in our family. Our new house was being constructed and until last week all the three granddaughters were staying with me. He came home the previous night and had dinner with us and left,” rued Ravinder’s mother, Rani Devi. Police officials investigating the case claimed that it appears to be a case of homicide-suicide. Ravinder first killed his wife and children and then strung himself.