Sensation prevailed in Urla locality of the city after charred bodies of a woman and her two sons were found in Bana village of under Urla police station limits on Thursday morning.
The deceased were identified as Dularin Bai (38), her son Sonu (8) and Sanjay (11), police said while adding the lone survivor of the family was the woman’s daughter who was away at her maternal uncle’s house.
“Injury marks on the body of the deceased persons indicate that they had been first killed and then the bodies were burnt to hide the crime,” Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Abhishek Maheshwari told reporters.
The deceased woman’s late husband was a PWD employee and she was appointed in the same department on compassionate grounds about six months ago.
Meanwhile, police had rounded up a man in this connection for questioning. The man is a relative of Dularin Bai’s late husband, police added.