Man kills wife and child in a fit of rage, surrenders

 NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old man strangled his wife and little daughter at Adarsh Nagar in northwest Delhi on Saturday, police said. He threw the woman’s body from the balcony on second floor to give it the appearance of a suicide, but after a while, surrendered before the cops. This is the second such incident in a week.

The accused, Ajeet Kumar, stayed with his wife and daughter in Block B, lane number 5 of Kewal Park in Adarsh Nagar. Police said he worked at a restaurant in Noida. He married Shalini (28) in 2010; the couple had their first child, Vanshika, in 2011.

Residents said they heard the couple fighting loudly around 10.45pm on Saturday and Ajeet seemed to have beaten her into silence. About 15 minutes later, Ajeet was seen throwing Shalini’s body from his balcony. The locals rushed to stop him but he had already let it fall. Before long he came downstairs with the lifeless body of his daughter and sat beside his wife’s body lying in a pool of blood.

The neighbours questioned him but he stayed mum, and after a few minutes, called up the cops himself and confessed to the murders. Police soon arrived, took over the bodies and arrested him. Police said Ajeet claimed to have acted in rage. He had been having a dispute with his wife for the past few months.

He admitted to have strangled his wife after a fight on Saturday. He also killed his daughter as he felt there would be no one to look after her. Police sent the bodies for postmortem and handed them over to the woman’s family members on Sunday.

Police said the couple’s relations were strained and they had decided to live separately since last year, when Shalini went back to her parental home in Dwarka. Two months later she returned to her in-laws to reconcile differences but it didn’t help.

Shalini’s father, Mahesh Kumar, a former employee of Indian Airlines, said Ajeet and his family had been harassing Shalini since their marriage. He added that the family had even registered a case of dowry demands under Section 498A of IPC at the Palam police station. Earlier this year Ajeet filed for a divorce but the families decided to give them time to smooth out troubles.

“My daughter called me up on Saturday morning saying that Ajeet was harassing her mentally for Rs 2.5 lakh. I asked her to come back home but she said she would handle the situation and asked me not to worry,” said Mahesh Kumar. Police said they have filed a case and are probed the allegations made by the woman’s father. Ajeet’s mother and brother, who stay in Mukundpur, have been detained.

Fact – Wife filed DV + 498a just for 2.5 Lacks. What a joke on relationship. I can understand the pain of guy who was living under lots of stress with her wife. The relationship was already dead after DV and 498a but both were suffering from this dead relationship.