Nine-year-old, parents among 4 hacked to death in Gurugram house

GURUGRAM: Armed with a sickle that wasn’t an unfamiliar tool in his hands — as avid planter and pruner, he was “tree man” to the neighbourhood — a 65-year-old property dealer allegedly went on a killing spree in his Rajendra Park house in Tuesday’s early hours, hacking to death his daughter-in-law, and a couple and their nine-year-old daughter who lived as tenants on the second floor.
The lone survivor in the tenant’s house was a three year-old, their younger daughter, who is being treated at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital for lacerations on her neck and arms. The murders, which are believed to have taken place between 3.30am and 4am, were discovered in the morning when the suspect, Rao Rai Singh, walked to the local police station 500 metres away and surrendered around 7am. He had taken the murder weapon with him, which he handed over to the cops.

There were two others in Singh’s house at the time of the murders — his wife and their eight-year-old granddaughter. Singh’s son Anand Yadav, a practising lawyer at the Gurugram district court, is believed to have been in Rajasthan, on a trip to Khatu.
The populated neighbourhood, with kothis next to each other and familiar faces in most of them, slept through the frenzy of violence. There are tenants in the ground floor of Singh’s house as well, but they are currently away. The Singhs live on the first floor. Singh had served in the Army as a naib subedar, police said.
The murdered tenants — Krishan Tiwari and his wife Anamika — had only moved in four months ago from another Gurugram neighbourhood and allegedly had an ongoing dispute with Singh over their rent agreement, according to a relative of the Tiwaris. Police said they were looking at other aspects to find the murder motive. Prima facie, according to investigations, Singh’s daughter-in-law Sunita Yadav (32) was the first to be murdered. The broken latches on the door of the tenant’s house showed the killer had entered by force. Police teams that first reached the spot found a macabre crime scene — Krishan lay in a pool of blood on the floor while Anamika and the two children were on the bed. All four had bled heavily. Sunita’s body was found in her room on the first floor.
“There were multiple injury marks on the upper body of the victims. It seems the suspect swung the sickle freely and attacked whoever came in the way,” said ACP Rajeev Yadav, adding the injuries suggested the victims had met a painful death. “We are still trying to find the motive,” said the ACP.
Sunita’s brother Ashok Kumar alleged she was harassed and subjected to physical assault for dowry. “They kept demanding something or the other and tortured her,” Kumar claimed. Krishan’s brother-in-law Ashwani Mishra, who works with a private company in Delhi, was the first from his family to reach the spot after getting a call from police. “Last we met was on Rakhi when Krishan, my sister and the kids visited our house in Delhi. He had told us about a dispute over the rent agreement with his landlord,” said Mishra.
He said Krishan had prepared the rent agreement and asked Anamika to get it signed by Singh. Anamika had apparently given the document to Sunita, who got Singh’s signature and returned it to Anamika. But after a few days, according to Mishra, Singh had some doubts about the document on which Sunita had taken his signature and had asked Krishan to show it to him again. Krishan had, however, misplaced the rent agreement, Mishra said.
Krishan, who was from Siwan in Bihar, had moved to Gurugram 10 years ago. He worked with the sales team of a private bank but lost his job during the lockdown. A relative of Sunita said she and Anand got married around 12 years ago. “Sunita was working as a nurse with a city hospital, which she quit earlier this year. She was at her parents’ place in Mahendergarh for the past six months and had returned to Rajendra Park a week ago,” said the relative.
Based on Mishra’s complaint, a case was registered under Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and sections of Arms Act at Rajendra Park police station. DCP (west) Deepak Saharan said the probe was focusing on forensic and technical evidence.
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