New Delhi, February 25 A man allegedly slit the throats of his wife, who was two months pregnant, and their three daughters at their residence in a northern area of the national capital, with police suspecting that his preference for a son may be behind the killings, officials said.
First responders at the house in the Prem Chand Park area on Wednesday morning witnessed a gruesome scene – 27-year-old Anita and her three daughters, aged three, four, and five years, lying in a pool of blood.
“All four victims had their throats cut with a sharp-edged weapon. The injuries were so deep that their windpipes were cut,” a senior police officer said, describing the crime scene as "extremely brutal".
While investigators are probing all possible angles, including a suspected extramarital affair, preliminary inquiries suggest that the gruesome killings may have been triggered by the couple's three daughters and the lack of a son, police said, adding that the suspect, Munchun Kewat, has been missing from the house.
Police said a PCR call was received at 8:07 am on Wednesday regarding the bodies lying inside a room on the ground floor of the house.
The bodies were first noticed in the morning by relatives and neighbors. "This morning, when my brother-in-law's son came with his uncle to go to the market, he was crying. I came down and asked him what happened," Rubi, a relative, told