Jind man held for killing his 5 kids in last two years

ROHTAK: A 38-year-old man was arrested in Haryana’s Jind district after he confessed to killing his five children in the last over 2 years, including two of them recently, a senior police official said on Friday.

The man, identified as Jumma, is a labourer and belongs to a village in Jind’s Safidon.

Additional superintendent of police (ASP) Ajit Singh Sekhawat said the bodies of two of his daughters, aged 11 and 7, were recovered from the Hansi-butana Link canal near his home in Didwara village on July 20, five days after the accused had lodged a police complaint stating the duo had gone missing.

“However, during the course of investigation, Jumma kept changing his statements which raised suspicion,” the ASP said.

The village panchayat was later involved and the man confessed before them that he killed his five children. Jumma admitted that he drugged his two minor daughters and threw them in the canal a few days ago, the ASP said.

Earlier, Jumma’s three children, all below 11, had also died mysteriously. “He has now confessed that he killed those three children as well.,” he said.