A youth, resident of Janjgiri village under Anda police station, 21 km away from the district headquarters, killed his mother, wife and three children and then committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling on Sunday night. The reason behind the killing is not yet known.
Durg SP Anand Chhabda said that, as per the information, the accused Devnarayan was mentally weak. However, he said, after investigation detailed information about the incident could be provided.
According to sources, the family members of the accused, Devnarayan Deshmukh, had gone to sleep after having dinner. In between 12 and 3 in the night, the accused attacked his mother Jhamin Bai (55), wife Pushpa Bai (30), daughter Kavita (10), Venu (7) and son Devendra Kumar (5) with a hammer. All the five died on the spot, the sources added.
After committing the crime, at 5 in the morning, Devnarayan told his father Gyan Singh Deshmukh, a teacher at Doundilohara on telephone that he killed whole of the family and he should come for the last rites in the morning. Gyan Singh telephoned his nephew Rajkumr, residing in Janjgiri, to go to his house and see his son.
At about 5.30 am, when Rajkumar reached the house, Devnarayan was bolted inside the house. Anyhow, he broke open the door and saw that Devnarayan was hanging from the ceiling and the family members lying dead in a pool of blood.
Rajkumar informed Sarpanch Gunvant Sahu about the incident and the Sarpanch gave information to the Anda police accordingly at 6.00 in the morning. The police immediately reached the place of incident, started investigation, and after postmortem returned the bodies to the village.
It is said that Devnarayan’s father, Gyan Singh was residing at Doundilohara with his second wife and they have two children also. Devnarayan was residing at Janjgiri with his mother and family. It was also said that since last 10-12 years the mental health of Devnarayan was not good.