New Delhi, A 42-year-old routine gambler allegedly killed his spouse and three minor daughters by slitting their throats at their residence in outer north Delhi’s Siraspur space earlier than fleeing to Rajasthan, police mentioned on Sunday, including that he was arrested after a 72-hour multi-state manhunt.
The accused, recognized as Munchun Kewat alias Ashish, is a vegetable vendor at Azadpur Mandi. He was in debt and had a quarrel along with his spouse over the difficulty earlier than the murders. He was apprehended from Kishangarh in Ajmer district of Rajasthan.
The our bodies of Anita and her three daughters aged three, 4 and 5 years had been discovered inside their one-room home in Chandan Park, Siraspur, on February 25. All 4 had their throats slit with a sharp-edged weapon. A PCR name was acquired within the morning, following which a police staff from Samaypur Badli police station reached the spot.
Kewat was discovered lacking from the home and instantly emerged because the prime suspect. An FIR beneath part 103 of the BNS was registered.
Investigators analysed footage from over 800 CCTV cameras and used Facial Recognition System know-how to hint the actions of the accused. Groups had been dispatched to Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. After technical surveillance indicated he had boarded a practice in the direction of Ajmer, he was intercepted in Kishangarh.
Throughout interrogation, Kewat allegedly confessed to the crime, citing mounting debt and stress from lenders because the set off. The police mentioned he had borrowed round ₹2 lakh from his in-laws in latest months, of which ₹60,000 was used to repay a lender recognized as Mithilesh, ₹40,000 to a ginger provider, whereas the remaining quantity was misplaced in cricket betting and playing, each on-line and offline.
The police mentioned on February 23, the accused had a heated argument with Mithilesh over the cash, “throughout which threats had been allegedly issued”. Enraged, he bought a knife used for slicing jackfruit for ₹90 from the market and hid it at residence. Within the early hours of February 25, at round 4 am, he allegedly slit his spouse’s throat whereas she was asleep. When his eldest daughter awoke and started crying, he killed her as nicely, adopted by the 2 youthful youngsters.
He allegedly tried to kill himself however fled as a substitute. After the murders, he briefly returned to the mandi, slept out there yard and survived on roadside meals earlier than escaping to Ajmer, police mentioned.
Kewat, a local of Patna in Bihar, had beforehand been discovered concerned in a theft case registered at PS Adarsh Nagar in 2025. He had additionally labored in Chennai and Ajmer as a labourer engaged in loading and unloading work.
The weapon used within the crime is but to be recovered. The accused is in police custody and additional investigation is underway, the police added.
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