Man gets life term for killing 4 of family in Gurugram

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Jagdeep Singh has sentenced a convict to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 on him for killing four members of his family in 2018. The culprit, Suresh, had murdered his cousin (sister), her husband, mother-in-law and daughter over a family feud and land dispute.

According to the police, on the evening of August 29, 2018, four members of the same family were murdered in their house in Brijpura village in Pataudi area. The deceased were identified as Pinki (24), her husband Manish Gaur (25), mother-in-law Phoolwati (62) and one-year-old daughter Charu. Pinki’s dead body was found hanging from a fan. Her son Akashy was also injured in the attack. An FIR was registered and a SIT was constituted. While investigating, the SIT arrested Suresh.

According to the police, Suresh had confessed to having stabbed Manish with a blunt object in an “act of rage” after he found Pinki hanging from a fan but denied killing Manish’s mother and Charu. He had revealed that on the day of the incident, he, Manish and Pinki had sat down and settled their differences, following which Suresh left to meet another relative.

“During probe, Suresh said when he returned to Pinki’s house in the afternoon, he found her hanging from a ceiling fan and confronted Manish. Manish was sitting outside the room and was experiencing palpitations, possibly from fear that he would be blamed for his wife’s suicide. Suresh, who takes sleeping pills, offered six to seven pills to Manish to help him calm down. Meanwhile, Manish’s mother saw her daughter-in-law hanging and started shouting and kept raising an alarm despite repeated requests to be quiet, Manish hit her on the head with a household object. In the chaos, Suresh confronted Manish and stabbed him in the chest, neck and abdomen with a sharp object. Manish’s daughter, who was sleeping, sustained a blow to the head in the scuffle and succumbed to internal bleeding. Pinki died on the spot while her husband, mother-in-law and daughter died in hospital during treatment,” an official said.

“Additional Sessions Judge Jagdeep Singh, while convicting the accused on the basis of evidence and witnesses given by the police, sentenced Suresh to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 on him,” said a spokesperson of the police.