Date:11/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/11/stories/2009011156640100.htm

New Delhi

Young woman, children found murdered

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A young married woman and her two sons aged four and seven years were found murdered under mysterious circumstances at their residence in the Capital over the weekend.

The bizarre crime came to light when 37-year-old Hemchand returned home from work around midnight on Friday night and discovered his wife Seema (33) and sons Kunal (7) and Nishant (4) lying in a pool of blood with their throats slit.

“Hemchand returned home around 11 p.m. and knocked at the door several times. But there was no response. He then went to the ground floor and requested the family to let him enter his first floor flat through the back entrance.

On entering the house, he found his wife and two sons lying dead with stab injuries. He came down screaming and told his neighbours about the incident. He then informed his in-laws and the police,” said a senior police officer on Saturday.

Seema was found lying on the floor of the bedroom, while her two sons, both probably murdered in their sleep, were on the double bed. There were no signs of ransacking in the house.

Hemchand had left his job recently and set up his own computer business in the Sudarshan Park area of Moti Nagar.

No enemies

Seema’s father Motilal said the couple had no enemies nor was there any marital discord. Seema reportedly had some problem with her in-laws earlier because of which the couple had shifted to their present house at Bindapur in West Delhi two years ago.

Most of the neighbours were tight-lipped about the incident and said they had not noticed anything unusual. “The family did not interact much with the neighbours and kept to themselves. We never heard the husband and wife quarrel.

The man usually left for work around noon and returned late in the night. However, on Friday he left around 2-30 p.m. I last saw Seema fetch her sons from a nearby school around 1-30 p.m.,” said a neighbour.

The police were completely clueless about the motive behind the gruesome murders and its perpetrators.